Movie clip path

Ok this is driving me crazy. It is pretty simple. I just want
a button I click to tell another movie clip to gotoAndPlay(2); and
when I click the button nothing happens. I know the path is correct
because I have the other movieclip in the _root section and it is
named site_mc so the actionscript says on(press){
_root.site_mc.gotoAndPlay(2); } and nothing happens. any
ideas?

The buttons are working. I am not sure what was wrong other
than operator error. I do notice the movie clip has a white margin
on the left and a white margin on the top. What parameter should I
be using to center the movie clip in the window and to position the
movie clip at mid spot of the scrollable instead of at the
top?

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