Load random swf into movie

I need to load a randomly selected .swf into my main movie.
Have found the code below which does all the loading fine...
... however, I need to keep elements from the original, so is
there a way to load the new movie INTO the main one?
I think I might need to load into an empty instance? If so,
what does my code need to look like?
Thanks in advance

You should use the MovieClipLoader class.
var mcl = new MovieClipLoader();
var lis = new Object();
lis.onLoadInit = function(target:MovieClip){
//target is loaded and ready when this fires
mcl.addListener(lis);
function loadFile(fileURL){
mcl.loadClip(fileURL, content);
Now you can just call loadFile with a url and it will be
loaded into the
clip 'content', which can be an empty clip on stage. You
don't have to do
anything in the listener, but you can set width, height,
alpha etc. in
onLoadInit.
HTH
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Load AS2 swf into AS3 swf problem

I have a flash with AS3 and inside this swf i load in a AS2 swf.
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so can i do like this then to go to frame 3 in my loaded swf?
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sorry for being such an airhead
thanks for helping me out =)
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 10:25:09 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: load AS2 swf into AS3 swf problem
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Message was edited by: Dan Wilkinson, 01/06/2011 11:37am BST (GMT + 1)

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