Attaching movie clips to other movie clips

I have mc1 nested like this
_root.mc3.mc2.mc1;
If i want to attach the mc1 from within mc2 timeline to the
_root timeline how can I do this?... I don't want to reattach it
from the library it must be the nested mc1 that is attached to the
root timeline.
Is there a way to attach movie clips to other m.c's in this
way?
regards J

I've spent nearly a year creating this site... I just taken a
glance at AS3. And sizeable isnt wrong... mamouth is closer. Other
than having to learn AS3 it would take me months to rewrite
everything. Is AS3 actually that much better than AS2? Either way
im gonna finish the site in AS2 and try and find a work around for
my attaching mc's to other mc's. Maybe one day I will convert it,
but it just looks like an unnecissary headache.
Thanks for your help. J

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