Calling functions of a SWF embedded within an HTML Text Field...

I have a slideshow SWF of size 150px by 150px which changes
image every 5 seconds with the use of a timer, the SWF has a kill()
function which stops the timer.
In a larger content holding SWF I have a dynamically
generated textfield which populates its htmlText property via an
XML feed.
Within the htmlText I am inserting the slideshow SWF using
the <img> tags... It all works great until I proceed to
another page as there is no way to unload the slideshow SWF or call
its kill() function which eventually lags the system as I have
several heavy animations in the pages on ENTER_FRAMES.
Does anyone know how to unload a SWF or gain access to its
functions which is embedded within htmlText...

Thanks for replying :)
I tried that and using txt.getImageReference("idHere") I
casted it to a loader object however it wont let me then get access
to the SWFs functions...
I tried creating a sprite and using addChild() tried adding
the loader to the sprite but it gave me cohesion errors...
Any other help MUCH appreciated

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