Swf inside fla stage?

Hello,
I've tried searching on the net on how to do this and there are several answers but none worked for me. I have a swf which I wish to insert inside the flash stage. This swf is the airtight postcard viewer. The stage is basically a picture of a table top table with the left side having some objects. I want to be able to tween the postcard viewer onto the right side of the table so the pictures scatter out on the right 2/3 and not interfere with the objects or "fall off " the table...once the viewer is done looking at the gallery and click on another link, then all the pics move/tween out (onRelease) as a group out of the way and new contents tween in.
I've tried creating a new object, movie clip, while inside this instance I import onto stage the swf file and back out to scene 1 and place this object onto the stage but it doesnt work. I can see the swf on the stage but it wont play!
I get ghis error which said "statement must appear within on/onClip Event handler..."
Please help, thank you!

You will need to use loadMovie() to bring that, or any other, .swf into your current movie. To use loadMovie(), you will need to have a target movieClip on the stage. You will be loading the .swf into this target. Look at the online help for more information on this method.

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