Flash Buttons and a nested movie clip

I have made my movie clip and now I want to nest it into a
button. I am not sure what code I need to use for this and how to
nest it. I want, when a person rolls over the button for the movie
clip to run. When they roll off of the button the movie clip stops.
When they click on the button it takes them to a link. If anyone
can please help me with this, I would SO greatly apprecaite it.
Thank You ahead of time.

Thank You SOOOO Much for replying to this. I can't tell you
how much I appreciate your help.
I just assumed that was the only way I could do it, (nest
it.) So, my MC is called jiggle.
So everywhere you have the my_mc. Should I replace it with
jiggle.onRollOver etc....?
ALso you say to attach the code to the action layer in the
frame the MC appears, not in the MC itself.
So, in the timeline that I have my MC , I have an actions
layer. Do I not want an actions layer there? Should I just save the
timeline with my MC and then cut and paste it into another timeline
that has the actions layer?
I actually have 5 of these MC.that all need to do the same
thing, they are each for a different button.

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