I was told to post these questions here. So here goes.

1) Is it possible to target a flash file and it's timeline that is in an html frame from another flash file in a different frame?

If question 1 is true then

2) How would I control a movie clip inside the frame that I'm targeting? For example: the frame name that I am targeting is called "mainNav", the swf in the html for that frame is called "mainNav.swf" and the instance name inside "mainNav.swf" is "pointer". So if I was in the in the "mainNav.swf" the location is _root.navBar.pointer.

thanks.