Load external .swf on new frame after click

[Superpiccolo]

I am quite green with Flash so excuse my ignorance.

My situation is as follows:

I am currently attempting to create a 3D Interface type of project for my Multimedia College course.
The way in which I first went about accomplishing this is by importing all my videos (each into it's own Movie Clip Symbol) into my main project and place them on separate key frames on separate layers, and by means of a simple button click the movie on that frame plays, and then by means of a line of action script inside each movie clip symbol the project goes to the next menu with more buttons which then repeat this process.

(Sorry if this sounds confusing, I'll try to be more clear if your can't understand what I’m saying.)

Now this method works wonderfully, the only thing is that my main exported .swf becomes so large (upwards of 200 meg) that I cannot export it any more as Flash gives me a memory error. This is quite understandable and I was kind of expecting this to happen.

Which leads me onto method 2 (my current situation)

Now what I wish to do is to play these movies not directly from my main project but call them from externally created .swf I prepared earlier. This becomes a problem, as with my extremely limited knowledge of Action script I do not know how I would do this properly. However I will explain to you how I tried to do this.

What I have now is a button that with the use of this script placed on a new layer on the same frame:

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b1.onRelease = function() {
    loadMovie("3DInterface01.swf", empty_mc);
};

This does play the swf I want where I want but NOT EXACTLY where I want. Allow me to elaborate.
What I want to happen is to click my button and the frame to go to where I pointed it to go before (with my embedded videos in movie clip symbols) and then to play the called swf on THAT frame. As currently the only way for this to work currently is for me to place this script, the empt_mc Movie Clip Symbol and the button all on the same frame (on separate layers of course). This is problematic as I have no idea how I can forward my project at all from this point.

Note: All the action script I use is from external sources (I.E. teachers, forums etc). I did not write any of it.

[Superpiccolo]

All good now. I got some help. I was shown this to use on each frame that the empty_mc is on (new layer of course):

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loadMovie("3DInterface01.swf", _root.empty_mc01);
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
    if (_level0.empty_mc01.instance01._currentframe>=124) {
        gotoAndStop(7);
    }
};
stop();

Each value needs to be changed for each individual circumstance of course but it works like a charm.