Buttons inside a movie

I am having an issue with some buttons inside of a movie that
should reference a specific frame on Scene 1. the code I have is
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("scene1", 546);
But it is doing is resetting to the begging of the movie
instead of going to frame 546 in scene 1. You can take a look at
the file by going to ftp://supersilo.com/exchange use the username
of expert and pass of exchange

don't use scenes for navigation and don't use the goto
functions. use frame labels and the goto methods. for example

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    on (press){
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    When frame 2 is displayed, I would like to  click to the X-button to get back to frame number1, so what I've done  is, again, convert it into a movie clip and assign the following action:
    on (press){
        _root.gotoAndStop(1);
    But this doesn't work. I've been trying as  well changing other things, but no way... At first I thought it had  something to do with the _root or _parent, but now it looks as when  using gotoAndStop in the "parent" button (button1), no actions work for  the "child" buttons.
    I've loaded the fla and the swf files here, just in case  someone would like to check.
    Thank you very much in advance for your help.  I've been checking other posts, but apparently I couldn't find the  appropriate info.

    "_root" is only used to reference the very first level of your flash file. Right now you are telling flash to go to the second frame in your root timeline but you want to go to the second frame in your button1 timeline.
    Change the code that is on the X-button to
    on(press){
         gotoAndStop(1);
    Remove the "_root" and it should work.
    If it still doesn't work, make sure the button has an instance name of "button1" and use this code.
    on(press){
         _root.button1.gotoAndStop(1);
    This is using "_root.button1" as the 'address' of your movieclip and it wont matter where the code is.

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