How to place a movieclip on top of external swf

Hi there.
I have a main.swf in which i load a xml flash slideshow (.swf).
I want to place a menu which will be shown in front of the slideshow gallery.
I place the menu at an upper layer but the menu appears behind the slideshow.
Can anyone help with this and generally(i.e. in case i want to place something else on top or behind something else)
Thanks in advance

If you were to replace that dynamically created empty movieclip with a manually created one placed in the timeline that would take care of the first suggestion I offered.
As for the the swapDepths usage and what you showed, you should be able to use something to the effect of... myGalleryContainer.swapDepths(myMenu);
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> Hey again,
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