Slideshow movie has stopped loading all images and stalls

Question

I made a basic slideshow that loads and plays photos with comments from an xml file.  I've just uploaded some new photo's and edited the xml to include them but now flash stops while loading the series of photo's and just stalls.  Removing the files from the xml does not work either and now I have no movie.  Tried various was of uploading etc and nothing works, the movie runs fine in testing locally.  It's extremly anoying as it was designed to be very simple to update with new images via the xml.
attached are all the relevant files

Answer 1

Not sure but I think preloaded.  I have waited it stops halfway through. Take a look here www.nathanielmcmahon.com.
here is the actionscript
import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
var _this = this;
var blend:String = 'noBlend'; // disolve, fadeInFadeOut, noBlend
var slideShowWidth:Number;
var slideShowHeight:Number;
var slides:Array = [];
var speed:Number = 1;
var slideContainer:MovieClip;
var myShowXML = new XML();
myShowXML.ignoreWhite = true;
myShowXML.load("slideshow.xml");
myShowXML.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
    if(success){
        _this.slideShowWidth = this.firstChild.attributes.width;
        _this.slideShowHeight = this.firstChild.attributes.height;
        _this.speed = this.firstChild.attributes.speed;
        _this.blend = this.firstChild.attributes.blendMode;
        for(var i:Number = 0; i < this.firstChild.childNodes.length; ++i ){
            var data:Array = [];
            data.url = this.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.url;
            data.title = this.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.title;
            slides.push(data);
        createContainer();
        loadImage(0);
    else{
        trace('ERROR (could not load slideshow.xml)');
function createContainer() {
    _this.slideContainer = _this.createEmptyMovieClip("slideContainer", _this.getNextHighestDepth());
    _this.slideContainer._x =215;
    _this.slideContainer._y = 0;
function loadImage(loadCounter) {
    var loader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
    var listener = new Object();
    loader.addListener(listener);
    loadCounter = undefined == loadCounter
        ? 0
        : loadCounter;
    _root.myClips_array = [];
    listener.onLoadProgress = function(target) {
        _this.preloader.textfield.text = "Loading.. "+(loadCounter+1)+"/"+slides.length+" Completed";
    listener.onLoadComplete = function(target:MovieClip) {
        target._alpha = 0;
        _this.slides[loadCounter].mc = target;
        if(++loadCounter < _this.slides.length){
            loadImage(loadCounter);
        else{
            _this.preloader._visible = false;
            moveSlide(0);
    //trace('load: ' +_this.slides[loadCounter].url);
    var mc = _this.slideContainer.createEmptyMovieClip(loadCounter, _this.slideContainer.getNextHighestDepth());
    loader.loadClip(slides[loadCounter].url, mc);
function moveSlide(slideCounter) {
    trace('slideCounter: ' +slideCounter+ ' blendMode: ' +blend);
    //debug.text += slideCounter+ ' - ' + slides[slideCounter].url +'\n';
    slideCounter = slideCounter < slides.length
        ? slideCounter
        : 0;
    var slide:MovieClip = slides[slideCounter].mc;
    var title:String = slides[slideCounter].title;
    var textfield = getTitleText();
    textfield.htmlText = slides[slideCounter].title;
    textfield._y = Stage.height -textfield._height - 5;
    //trace(textfield._height);
    if('noBlend' == blend){
        slide._alpha = 100;
    else if('fadeInFadeOut' == blend){
        new Tween(slide, "_alpha", Strong.easeOut, 0, 100, 1, true);
    else if('disolve' == blend){
        new Tween(slide, "_alpha", Strong.easeOut, 0, 100, 3, true);
    doLater(this.speed, function(){
        if('noBlend' == _this.blend){
            slide._alpha = 0;
        else if('fadeInFadeOut' ==  _this.blend){
            var fadeOut:Tween = new Tween(slide, "_alpha", Strong.easeOut, 100, 0, 1, true);
            doLater(0.5, function(){
                _this.moveSlide(++slideCounter);
            fadeOut.onMotionFinished = function(){
                //_this.moveSlide(++slideCounter);
            return;
        else if('disolve' ==  _this.blend){
            new Tween(slide, "_alpha", Strong.easeOut, 100, 0, 5, true);
        moveSlide(++slideCounter);
function doLater(time:Number, delegate:Function):Number {
    var intervalId:Number;
    var _delegate:Function = function() {
        clearInterval(intervalId);
        delegate();
    intervalId = setInterval(
        _delegate,
        time * 1000
    return intervalId;
function getTitleText():TextField {
    if(this['titleTextfield']){
        return this['titleTextfield'];
    var titleTextfield:TextField = createTextField ("titleTextfield",_root.getNextHighestDepth (),15,0,180,100);
    titleTextfield.autoSize = "left";
    titleTextfield.wordWrap = true;
    //titleTextfieldt.htmlText = "<a href='http://www.myspace.com/thomasjack'target='_blank'><font color=\"#a17d4f\">MySpace page</font></a>";
    titleTextfield.html = true;
    var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
    tf.font = 'Arial';
    tf.align = 'left';
    tf.size = 10;
    tf.color = 0x999999;
    titleTextfield.setNewTextFormat(tf);
    return titleTextfield;