Swf within a swf

So I've been nesting a lot of MCs within each other.
What I want to do is have a basic "image gallery," so to speak, that links to about 6 other SWFs I already have made. For the life of me I cannot think of how to do this properly.
The main thing is the button and the goto function. Is that even the right function?
Hopefully someone understands. This is time sensitive. Thanks.

I don't know if it matters, but I would avoid capitalizing Event in... Event:MouseEvent
because Event is a class just like MouseEvent
I get the impression you are using the UILoader component--fair warning, I tend to avoid using components, so I can only reference the help files to try tio help. If you mean that code is not working for you, then I think you have to use the load method to actually load what you identify as the source.
var swf:Array = new Array("flash1.swf", "flash2.swf", "flash3.swf")
obama_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, obama);
function obama(Event:MouseEvent):void
media_mc.source = swf[0];
media_mc.load();
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media_mc.load(new URLRequest(swf[0]));

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