XML menu... help needed!

Hi everyone!!! I have an XML drop-down menu, and I need to have the menu items to load external swf into a container in my movie!!

this is a example of the code I have:
<menu name=“MyMenu”>
<item name=“Friends” action=“gotoURL”
variables="<A href=“http://www.whatever.com”/">http://www.whatever.com"/>

what code should i use for loading external swf???

I have an emptyMovieClip called “container” and a swf called “help”!
I tried:
<item name=“Friends” action=“loadMovie”
variables=“help.swf, container”/>

obviously it didn’t work!!! How do i tell the XML this is AS code??? do i need to?

thanks a lot anyone!!!
cheers