Using the gallery from the tutorial multiple times in a scene

Hey guys, it’s my first post, I’ve been a lurker for a while, and can’t seem to find an answer to this question. I’ve been trying to incorporate the code from the MX tutorial on photo galleries and it works fine when it’s the only iteration. But when i try to put multiple galleries in the same scene that are all the same differing only in the instance name of the ‘photo rectangle’ and the source directory path for the photos.

I would like to have this series of galleries that are all lined up and slide left or right so the viewer can pick which gallery they want. So i’m wondering how do i get all these individual galleries into one movie clip sliding back and forth and still work? I’ve tried several things to get it to work and one of the two happens:
1)when the scene is loaded the stage is only the photo size, and one gallery is only visible (wtf?)
2)all the galleries are visible, but only one of them actually has the first image loaded, the rest only have the rectangles that are the place holders for the image visible, and if i hit the forward and backward buttons on any of the galleries, it advance only on the one gallery that has the image loaded. Even though i have changed the button code to correspond to that gallery.

I hope i have explained this well enough, i’ll check back in a bit and elaborate if needed. Thanks in advance!

oh, the inspiration for my interface is here, so you can see what it is i’m trying for:
http://www.grudowski.com/
check out any of the portfolio section stuff, I figured i could just have an array of these galleries moving left to right depending on the thumbnail the viewer clicks on… can i do it this way, or is there a better way?