How to control Movie Clip inside of an empty Movie Clip

PS: Once you load a clip into an empty clip it isn't empty anymore, right? Somehow a lot of people get hung up on that. A createEmptyMovieClip just makes a regular movieclip that is empty, once there is stuff in the clip it is just like any other movieclip with stuff in it.

The loaded MCs are accessible through the instance name of the empty MC that loads these clips:

forward_btn.onRelease = function(){
emptyMC.gotoAndStop(2);
}
backward_btn.onRelease = function(){
emptyMC.gotoAndStop(1);
}

This assumes that the buttons are in the same clip/level as the empty MC with the loaded clips.

hth,
blemmo