Send loaded swf to a certain frame

I'm sure this has been answered here before, but I can't find
anything in Search.
I load an external .swf file into a Loader. There is a button
on the main timeline which is supposed to send the Loader's Child
to frame 4. This has to be a simple operation, but I'm stymied. Any
help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hey, thanks for the quick response. Do you think you could
expand on that a bit? I don't know how to reference the loaded
swf... is it something like
Loader.child.gotoAndStop(4)? Thanks again.

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mcommini wrote:
> Hey! I've got a flash file which acts as the main menu
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Hi Ned thanks for the reply,
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