Rotating Menu - Buttons don't work inside MC's

Question

Hello,
This is my first post here and it would be great if I could
have your help to solve this little problem:
Flash CS3 | AS2 | Rotating Menu
I'm creating a small animation in which I have a clock-like
rotative menu.
I found the code for this in the internet and made some few
adjustments (mainly just took somethings I didn't needed out)
In my file I have 6 circles that are all movieclips that make
part of a circular menu that rotates everytime you click on one of
the circles. Those movieclips are not on the stage, only on the
library, and are being "pulled" into action by the actionscript.
I need those movieclips to act as menu buttons, so I made a
button inside each one of them.
The problem is that the buttons don't work. They don't do
what they are suppose to (load another movieclip). The solution
must be quite simple because it doesn't make sense not to work, but
I'm unable to get it...
In the original file they worked as buttons that linked to an
URL but I removed that because I didn't need it. Just need them to
act as normal buttons and play another MC...
Do you have any idea why this happens?
Does it have anything to do with the fact that the circle
movieclips that contain the buttons are not actually on the stage?!
The code I'm using in the buttons is rather simple:
on(release){
movie1.play();
I would appreciate your help on this!
Thank you,

Answer 1

Hi Odisey2,
I appreciate the time you took to try to help me!
I only have 1 frame in my stage, and its the one that
contains the actioscript code.
I also have on stage the MC i'm trying to make the button
play. The first frame of that MC is empty and has a stop, so that
its not visible at first.
Then I wanted that when you click the button (the onde that
is inside the MCs that are being "pulled" by the code I sampled) it
would play that MC on stage.
The code I'm using in the burron is pretty simple:
on(release){
movie1.play();
I've tried to put "_root" before, like this: "_root.movie1"
but it doesn't work as well.
Any other idea?
Do you think it has anything to do with the fact that the
circle movieclips that contain the buttons are not actually on the
stage?!
Thanks,