Having trouble with nested artboards and events

I'm at a bit of a loss here as I've made projects like this before but I just can't get this to work. It's driving me a bit crazy. It's a simple concept I'm trying to build. I have a screensaver, and on a click I want a menu to pop up with a few buttons. A click on one of these buttons should bring up another nested artboard with its own state machine. When you X out of that I want to return to the looping screensaver. I've tried using any state, as well as just pointing back to the original nested artboard but it just doesn't show up.

Thoughts?