Tooltips not working inside Embedded Movie Clip but works on main stage

Hey,
I  have a movie clip that is a navigation window and I am trying to have some tooltip hover over the buttons inside the navigation window.
If I create a button on the main stage it hovers and works fine but if I create the same clip inside the embedded navigation window the tooltip does not show up.  I do not have any error messages but it is not there that I can see.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

Even you place your mc within another clip for example NavWindowMC:
Write the code in the maintimeline as
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import fl.transitions.*;
NavWindowMC.mc.addEventListener("mouseOver", mouseRollOver);
NavWindowMC.mc.addEventListener("mouseOut", mouseRollOut);
NavWindowMC.mc.addEventListener("mouseMove", mouseMove1);
var tooltip:Tooltip = new Tooltip();
tooltip.txt.text = "Design";
tooltip.x = stage.mouseX;
tooltip.y = stage.mouseY - NavWindowMC.mc.height;
function mouseRollOver(e:MouseEvent):void {
    addChild(tooltip);
    var myTween:Tween = new Tween(tooltip, "alpha", Regular.easeIn, 0, 1, 0.5, true);
function mouseRollOut(e:MouseEvent):void {
    removeChild(tooltip);
function mouseMove1(e:MouseEvent):void {
    tooltip.x = stage.mouseX;
    tooltip.y = stage.mouseY - NavWindowMC.mc.height;

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