CONTROLLING THE TIMELINE FROM EXTERNAL MC

I have a website
http://www.charlesmarsden-smedley.com/index1.html
that I am building.
In the projects section, if you navigate to Projects >
Museum > Tower of London. You will see 'more information' link.
This loads an external Movie clip for the text feild. I would
like to make the 'more information' dissappear when it is clicked
and the text appears in the target. The way I thought is best is to
move the timeline on one frame and just remove the link, but when I
click on 'back to images' link it reloads the images (external MC)
but the 'more information' link is still hidden.
How can I control the main timeline from an extrernal movie
clip?
Am i being rediculously long about this operation?
thanks
Harky

maybe you didnt understand correctly.
the 'more information' link loads an external movie clip (the
text) into the right side of the page.
At the bottom of this movie clip is a green link 'back to
images' this button sits within the movie clip. So my problem is
making this button controll the main timeline (as its root is the
movie clip root, not the main web page root)

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