Loading a movie within a movie

Hello! I am trying to figure out the proper code for my
button which should unload a movie and then call an external swf to
load within a specific frame of yet another movie clip. Hope that
made sense. In other words... I want the new clip to load at a
specific frame and play the movie that is on that frame.
CODE I HAVE SO FAR:
on (release) {
removeMovieClip(design.swf);
on (release) {
loadMovie("index.swf",0);
gotoAndPlay('shop');
I know this isn't right, however it's the best I could come
up with on my own.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Kimberly

use loadMovie into another MC ....
u have a MC with 2 frames ... control
1st frame - an empty mc, clip1
stop();
clip1.loadMovie("the_clip1.swf")
2nd frame - same empty, clip2
stop();
clip2.loadMovie("the_clip2.swf")
the button
on(release) {
control.gotoAndStop(2);
}

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