Need help with actionscript (flash professional)

Ok so its been a while since I've used flash and i need a
little bit of help. I've searched through the help books and tried
to figure it out on my own but im stuck.
I'm making a website for my music page using flash
professional on Mac OSX.
I'm trying to make a menu along the left side that when you
press the "more" button at the bottom of multiple other buttons it
will make the set of links (which i have as buttons) switch out
with another set of links. (also buttons)
I cant get this more button to do it though!
here is a link to my .fla file
http://rapidshare.com/files/196874495/website.fla.html
Help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks.
-Ken

_parent tells the guy that's holding the movieclip (its
parent) to do something.
The reason I say something seems corrupted with the file is
because I took your button out of the movieclip and used it with
the code you had for the movieclip, which should have worked as you
had it on(release){ gotoAndPlay(2)} because for whatever reason,
buttons don't consider the guy holding them as their parent...
bitter adopted orphans I reckon.
but it didn't work, and I gave up trying to figure out why.
Sometimes files just need to find a new home in another
file.

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