Loaded .swf in wrong place

hello,
i have saved "TestClass2" and "one.swf" in the same folder,
and made TestClass2 the class of a movieClip within "one.swf".
On the last frame of the timeline of "one.swf", I have a
boolean variable called endFrame, which the function onEnter is
listening for.
When endFrame = true, the loader loads in "two.swf", but it
is not directly on top of "one" as I had hoped.
Please, what am I doing wrong? Is my strategy at all correct
in general? Thank you.

Thank you.
I changed addChild(imageLoader);
to stage.addChild(imageLoader);
and it works.
is that the correct way to do it?
also, is function loadTwo within function onEnter? Because
when I write "private", Flash gives me an error. Should it be
within onEnter, or outside of it somehow?
much appreciated.
RW

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