Centre align an anchor point

Hi there!
I've been following a tutorial (found at
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/xml_flash_photogallery.htm)
and I'm having difficulties centre aligning the anchor point inside
the empty movie that loads the images from the xml document. At
present the anchor point is located at the top left corner of the
image so the images will not be positioned correncly if they are
different dimensions. Is it possible to centre align the anchor
point using Actionscript so images will be displayed in the centre
of the image window? Can anyone help? I've attached the code that
exists in the first frame in the timeline which controls the movie.
The instance name for this MC is "picture". Thanks in
advance

the images are loaded by your swf. during runtime their
dimensions are available after loading is complete. (if you use
loadMovie, you'll need preloader code to access each image's target
movieclip's _width and _height which will be equal to your image's
width and height.)
once you know an image's dimensions you can center it with
respect to whatever you want. eg, your image window.

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