Controlling root time line from a movie clip

Hi
Ive been searching around for an hour or so and cant find anything that helping.
Im using cs4 and actionscript 2.
in my 2nd scene i have a movie clip with a roll over button inside, i need that button to control the root timeline and navigate around the site, how do i do this? this is what ive got and doesnt work -
on (release) {
_root.gotoAndPlay("main movie", 2);
thanks for any help.

Try using just a label name for the frame, no scene or frame number... Navigation for scene-based designs can be problematic. It will save you some issues if you design using just one scene.

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> My problem first appeared very simple, but I have spent
a while on it and can't
> think how to solve it. I must say that I am very much an
amateur in designing
> in Flash and ActionScript.
>
> I created a movie clip containing an embedded video and
a sound clip. In the
> main timeline I inserted the movie clip into a keyframe.
When I found the movie
> clip didn't play, I discovered that the only way of
making it play was to place
> a Stop action in the keyframe of the movie clip, and
also set the whole movie
> to loop. The Stop action stopped the whole movie from
looping, but instead made
> the movie clip loop. If the keyframe is on frame 456,
how do I make it advance
> onto frame 457 once the movie clip has finished running?
>
> I've tried various ways around the problem, including
placing a button inside
> the movie clip to Go to and Play frame 457, but instead
it plays frame 457 in
> the movie clip.
>
> Can anyone help me with this please?
>
>

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