External Movie Clip Bug

Hi Folks,
I have the external movie clip set up to load a swf and it
keeps wanting to go to the wrong folder to find the swf. I have
everything in the main swf in the same folder but it is trying to
find the external swf in the wrong folder. Each time the output
window shows it trying to go tothe wrong folder. I have the url set
to relative and going to the right swf. Please help!

Well, running under the debugger appears to make it quite clear that you can't have objects exported for actionscript in an external SWF.
And additionally it looks like you can't access such objects if they only have instance names.
It would really be nice to be able to introspect a SWF file that was loaded externally using AS3 and make changes to it.
The external file doesn't really need to contain any code to do this - all of the code is in the file loading it.
I was initially thinking all my problems were solved but now it looks like that isn't the case.

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