Arranging object inside of a movie clip

Hi, everybody.
I am new to Flash therefore my apologies for dumb questions up front…
Here we go.
I have four animated buttons with a design element cross_mc inside of another movie clip content_mc. I need all four buttons to be in front of the cross_mc so I get inside of content_mc to arrange the buttons accordingly (Modify > Arrange > Bring toFront). Everything looks hunky dory until I test the movie in which one of the buttons appears to be always behind of the design thingy no matter what I do…(Ahrrr!)
Please feel free to offer an advice, a word of encouragement, or some medical help while I am busy soaping the rope. Thanks.
Cheers.

You might be right on the money there. Let's try again... My .fla file consists of 3 layer: static background, actions and one named navigation with four buttons and some design elements defining different site sections. Traditionally navigation menus do not move across the screen and there is indeed a choice of placing them on separate layers. What I meant was that in this case the buttons participate in transitions from one section to the next, hence IMHO can not be separated i.e. are on the same layer.
Here's some screens:
The contents of every section are loaded from a corresponding .swf file once a transition is complete
Thanks.

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