Rollover Menu Trouble

I'm a bit new to the whole rollover menu concept but I think
I'm getting the hang of it. Now, on a website I'm designing for my
own personal use, i have the main menu system in one movie clip. In
that movie clip there are four other movie clips which contain the
animation and scripting for the rollover parts. The rollover part
works fine, when i roll my mouse over the movie clips they play an
animation, and when i roll off they reverse the animation, but I'm
having some difficulty linking the rollover buttons to play a
certain frame in the timeline. for the first button that happened
to be the "contact us" button, i used
on(release){
_root.play();
I used "_root." because when i just put "play()" it would
just play the interior timeline (i couldn't think of anything else
to call it) of the movie clip. **Remember that i'm adding
actionscript to movieclips inside one big movie clip**. And
"_root.play()" worked fine. It played the set of "contact us"
frames and i added another script to the end frame so it would
redirect me back to the main menu. the second rollover movieclip
("games") however, is giving me much more trouble. i added the
actionscript
on(release){
_root.gotoAndPlay(284);
because theoretically, if the first one worked this one
should work too. Except this is were it begins to get
perplexing...whenever i publish or preview the movie to test the
buttons, the first "contact us" button works fine, but when i get
to the "games" button, instead of directing me to the 284th frame,
it directed me to the 284th frame of a completely different scene.
the scene where the intro to my site plays.
So forgive me for the long message but help would be much
appreciated. I've been working with flash in my spare time for a
little under a year now I can't help to shake the feeling that the
problem is something obvious.

If you mean rollover rollvers (via layered menus) it could be the player itself, they are not supported acrosss all players.
Layer menus are here Layered Menus
Did you assign navigation to the buttons (or are yyou only going back and foorth between two buttons?)

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