Can't get nested movie clip to play

Hi everyone,
I have a movieclip on one of the frames on the maintimeline.
Within this movieclip is a nested movieclip which itself is
contained by another clip. The first movie clip plays to a certain
frame where I've got some code telling the nested movie clip to
play at that frame but this nested clip doesn't play. I'm not sure
if I'm targetting the nested clip incorrectly or whether something
else is wrong with the code.
The .fla file can be downloaded at:
http://www.officelinkonline.com.au/Ad/
if someone would take a look. The movie clip in question is
on the layer called text5, and within this mc on frame 15 is the
code I'm trying to use to get the nested movieclip to play at that
point. The code used on that frame is:
this.innerText5_mc.free_mc.play();
stop();
pauseAnim = setInterval (this, "nextFrame", 4000);
I wondered if someone could take a look and see what I might
be doing wrong? Basically the free_mc clip just makes the word
"FREE" scale up.
Would really appreciated any advice.
Thanks

Thanks again. I'm a bit worried that you weren't able to see
the font that I used. All of the text used in the animations are
static text fields. I don't seem to have the option to embed these
characters since it's static text. It'll only let me embed if the
text fields are dynamic. Does this mean I have to change them all
to dynamic text fields, and if so do I need to embed the font in
every text field in every frame of the animation or can you do this
in one place?
Appreciate your continued help.

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