Several Movies PreLoading On One Page - AAARGH

Ok, so forgive me if I have missed something obvious... I have been out of touch with all things Flash for a good part of 9 months or so

Anyways, my main home page (100% flash) is getting larger and larger as I update and grow the site, and I recently decided to test breaking it up into several smaller movies, assembling them together in a table through dreamweaver, for ease and so I can perhaps rearrange the layout later down the line too.

Each little movie is loaded into the page by its own preloader movie, a script i sourced ages ago from this site... Here is the scripting:

code: // First thing to do is set the stage size of
// this movie at the same size as your
// "to be loaded" movie, and re-position the display
// elements to your liking.
// Also set the same framerate as your movie.
// Then replace "sound.swf" in 2 of the lines below,
// with the name of your movie.
// Last, make sure your present movie is cleared
// of any preloader, and most importantly, that it
// starts off with a first blank keyframe.
//
// Hides displayed elements
this.reelmc._visible = false;
this.loadbar._visible = false;
percent_display = "";
// create a new movieclip to load
// the external movie into
this.createEmptyMovieClip("container", 10);
// load the external movie into the new movieclip
container.loadMovie("gigs_media.swf");
// check the download status of the external
// movie once every frame
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
// trace the percentage of the movie that has loaded
percent = (this.container.getBytesLoaded()/this.container.getBytesTotal())*100;
if (!isNan(percent)) {
// trace(percent+"% loaded");
if (percent == 0) {
percent_display = "";
} else {
percent_display = Math.ceil(percent)+"% LOADED.";
}
this.loadbar._visible = true;
this.loadbar._xscale = percent;
if (percent>1) {
this.reelmc._visible = true;
}
container.stop();
} else {
// trace("0% loaded");
}
if (percent == 100) {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
this.reelmc._visible = false;
percent_display = "";
this.loadbar._visible = false;
loadMovieNum("gigs_media.swf", 0);
}
};
stop();


However, the movies don't load and start up independantly of each other which is really frustrating. They all go through their own loading procedure, but stop and only start when all the other movies have loaded themselves fully. And in the end, the user ends up waiting even longer for the page to load than my original setup - plus it looks totally unprofessional, and the user probably thinks to themselves - what the heck's goin on here?

I am assuming this is something to do with the 'level' that the movies are loading into?? Hmmm.

This is my original page (one big movie):

Original Page

This is the page I am very slowly trying to create with the original movie, but this time broken up into smaller movies:

What I am Trying To Do

Any help / advice - someone please! Before I pull my hair out... Aargh.


Cheers

Donna
ps. I hope I make sense...

*edit: added AS tags for clarity
gparis

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