Attach a movieclip from the main timeline inside another movieclip.

I need help with the game I am working currently. On the main timeline Actions frame I have a loader class called myLoader. I attached that to a movieclip called currentSWF. I have a movieclip called SpinningCard in the library which I dynamically attached to the stage. Inside the SpinningCard movieclip there is another movieclip Card. In the Card movieclip I have 10 frames and on each frame I want to attach a different instance of the movieclip currentSWF. How can I do achieve that?
here's what I have till now...
On the main timeline Actions frame...
var loader:Loader=new Loader();
loader.load(new URLRequest("CardGraphics.swf"))
var currentSWF:MovieClip;
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, swfLoaded);
   function swfLoaded(e:Event):void {
   currentSWF = MovieClip(loader.contentLoaderInfo.content);
   addChild(currentSWF);
Inside the Card movieclip on the first frame I have this code...
var a1:MovieClip = MovieClip(parent.parent.getChildByName('currentSWF'));
CardFrame1.addChild(a1);
//CardFrame1 is an empty movieclip which is there on the frame 1 of Card Moveiclip.
I am getting error : Parameter must be non-null. How can I solve. Can anyone please help me.

Hi Nabren
I'm also looking to load a library based movie-clip into a stage based movie-clip, so that I can inturn swap it with other movie clips to act as different pages (page2_mc etc) which will be used in different sections of the application to give chapters as such.
I've had a go at the above but can't get a result, though it did not throw an error. I also had a trace() on each side and both of those triggered.
The stage based mc I called pageMC and the content mc I called content the same as your example
trace('loader - cx');
var loader:Loader=new Loader();
var pageMC:MovieClip;
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, swfLoaded);
function swfLoaded(e:Event):void {
pageMC = MovieClip(loader.contentLoaderInfo.content);
pageMC.name = "pageMC";
addChild(pageMC);
trace("Menu 4");
I'd appreciate some assistance. I would like to use internal MC's as I want to put the application to iOS and Android and believe by using movieclips I should be able to have some code with them whereas importing swf's I can't.
Thanks

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