Building for iOS: how to load other SWFs?

I have an AS3 app that loads two different kinds of SWFs: linear animations (basically stories consisting of a streaming narration track and still images with pans and dissolves), and SWF games of various types. I know that CS5.5 can compile to iOS apps. What's not clear to me is how this works in terms of dependent files. Do they also have to be compiled as iOS apps? How does it work when one app requests another Flash sequence? Is this possible?

Each of the stories is an average of 1mb. Are you saying people won't mind loading 150mb for an app? Although I guess people are used to loading movies, which are considerably larger. Am I just in a "minimal download" mode from the 90's?
"so size doesn't matter..."

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The code below loads an AS2 swf into my Flex mobile for IOS app and it works. If that AS2 swf has like a circle in it that runs across the stage, it loads and displays properly when run in FlashBuilder.
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The paths to the remote content are fine because swf's load and display fine from AS2 swf when run on it's own - not embedded in Flex app. They also load and run fine if I cut out the AS2 swf and access directly from my Flex code. So I know there isn't a path issue. More likely not accessing the right layer in the AS2 swf from Flex or something. Or maybe security sandbox violation but I don't see anything reported in the FlashBuilder debug console. When run console just reports:
[SWF] SwfMobile.swf - 2,639,761 bytes after decompression
[SWF] assets/swf/AS2.swf - 1,470 bytes after decompression
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Ah, yes. Using an AVM1 SWF could prove difficult...
I'm going on about 3 hours of sleep at the moment, but let me toss out a few thoughts I have and hopefully something will stick...
Ok, so my first thought what to try and cast the loaded content as a MovieClip and call methods on that, but the fact they are AVM1 throws that out the window.
That leaves LocalConnection, as you mentioned. But this would require you to have code on the receiving end to handle the connection... no good either.
But what if you created a "bridge" in AS2 that holds all the code for the receiving end of LocalConnection (or has the control logic itself, perhaps even eliminating the need for LocalConnection all together!). I think maybe this is what you were trying to do already by loading a SWF into a SWF? Well instead of loading your bridge at runtime, what if you statically linked it into your project as a class?
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Keep me posted!

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HELP! How to load multiple swfs using the following code?

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