Empty Movie Clip Shows White Box before Movie Loads

Hi all!
I created a type of slide show template that imports external
swfs. Everything works, but the client doesn't like the white box
created by the empty movie clip that appears before the external
swf loads. Does anybody know how to get rid of this? Any assistance
would be greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
rs

> I created a type of slide show template that imports
external swfs. Everything
> works, but the client doesn't like the white box created
by the empty movie
> clip that appears before the external swf loads. Does
anybody know how to get
> rid of this? Any assistance would be greatly
appreciated!
Hi there rs
Forum archives:
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?q=group:macromedia.flash.*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF -8
search for "white box"
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=white+box&num=10&scoring=r&hl=en&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq =&as_ugroup=macromedia.flash.*&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&lr=&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=1&a s_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=28&as_maxm=9&as_maxy=2006&safe=off
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Urami
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