LoadMovie from inside a movieclip question

I have a scroll movieclip which contains 15 buttons each button is an instance of 1main button. I have the button frame inside the timeline of the movie clip and the actions in frame 1 of the clip.
onrelease should call the loadMovie function and load another. swf in level 1
btn_1.onRelease = function()
this._root.loadMovie("crossings.swf");
btn_2.onRelease = function()
this._root.loadMovie("breath.swf");
it only works using LoadMovie not LoadMovieNum but instead of loading the swf into level 1 it loads into level 0
i can use this the way it is but why is it only loading in level 0?
rdred

OK I see what happened.
main.swf loads movie1.swf (level1) from a button (works)
movie1.swf has button that loads movie2.swf (level2) (works)
problem now is I will need to unload movie2.swf (level2) with a
button so movie1.swf (level1) is visible again
I tried the following actions in a button in movie2.swf (level2)
on (release) {
this._root.unloadMovieNum(2);
on (release) {
unloadMovieNum(2);
both do not work, what am I doing wrong?

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