How can I make Navivation buttons remain coded through different scenes?

Ladies and Gents,
I am working on a flash website for an artist with a lot of work. In order to maintain my timeline clean and organized I have created multiple scenes to display the artwork.
There is a home button and a a main navigation bar (present in every scene)
there is also a sub navigation bar that leads to the artwork.
The code is very simple and constant for all the buttons:
btnHome.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, home);
function home(evt:Event):void{
    gotoAndPlay(1, "Home");
This works only in the scene where I first placed the code (Scene "Art"). The rest of the scenes give me this error
ArgumentError: Error #2108: Scene Home was not found.
    at flash.display::MovieClip/gotoAndPlay()
    at Susan_Giles_MultipleScenes_Scene1999_fla::MainTimeline/home_1999()
I am very confused because flash can find the scene "Home" and the other 11 scenes from the scene ART, but it cannot locate them from any other scene.... what am I doing wrong?
I will appreciate all help.
Thanks in Advance.
J.

One way would be to make the movieclip clickable. That would make it block the other objects behind it...
     mc.onRelease = function(){ }
     mc.useHandCursor = false; // to hide the hand cursor
Another way would be to disable the buttons while the movieclip is present...
     btn.enabled = false;
Another way would be to build conditional code into the button clicking code to not work if the movieclip is visible.
     btn.onRelease = function(){
          if(!mc._visible){
                // okay to do stuff

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