Accessing Text within a Nested Movie

Hi can any one help me on this i am quite new to flash, basically i have a slide show running automatically
which displays pictures on a timeline and also have buttons associated with each photo to display that picure when it is clicked
I have added so text to show which each slide bit i want the text to become a hyper link to a website but for some reason it does not work
I have attached the *.swf unfortunately the forum wont let me attache the *.fla file
1) i tried using static text and the in the property inspector in the url section inserted the url it should target, then
2) i tried setting it to a dynamic text so that i can make use of the instance name within actionscript by doing this
say instance name of the dynamic text is called "myText" i used this code which i know it works;
on(release) {
getURL(http://www.mywebsite.com);
also i tried in the Main movie clip..in my Actionscript layer where my other code resides
myText.onRelease = function() {
getURL(http://www.mywebsite.com);
still no joy (the syntax might not be right here but i made sure it was in the code and tested it in a test clip and it worked so the code is good!)
and set the url again still nothing , then just for test purposes i tried converting my text to a button symbol it STILL did not WORK!
but now check this out
all this experiments i then tried on the main movie clip (masterclip_MC) WORKS! flawlessly, but where i am trying to do this is a set of timeline frames where the text appears in(one layer) movie clip (photosMC) WITHIN the main movie clip, hence it is NESTED so how do i do this, acessing a
can anyone please help??? i can send my *.fla file, i know this is so simple but i just dont know aenough of flash to do it....
here is the tutorial i used to create my slide show which was fantastic i also wrote to the SlideShow Creator...has not replied yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=cylX1lThTN0

Hi i am attaching the FLA file using a method which i called "extension hiding" by appending ".swf" extension hence the file is called
"SlideShowAS2_incFrames_TEST2.fla.swf"
as you can see it has double extension ".fla" and also ".swf" but it is really a fla file so just do rename and remove the ".swf" extension to see the fla file
thanks very much for anyone who can help
regards a .net programmer moonlighting as a flash designer/developer

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