External SWF problems

i have a few SWF files loading into the main SWF. I am using
a blank movie clip to load the external SWFs.
loadMovie("photos-color.swf", "color");
That is actionscript I use to load the external SWF into the
main SWF.
I go to one page on my site, download the external SWF, then
go to another page and when I go back to the first page, it reloads
the SWF again. Just a pain in the ***.
What do I have to add to that to tell the file not to reload
once it has already been loaded?
I have been searching all over and asking around and haven't
found any answers. I've looked into listeners, is that the right
direction at least?
Thanks in advance for any help.
jesse

ok so this is what i have.
SCENES- (the dashed are the sub-categories)
home
design
-graphic
-web
-type
-drawings
photos
-color
-b/w
links
in the COLOR scene, i have an animation that drops down and
shows the area where the photos will load. in that movie clip of
the dropdown area, i have the script that calls for the external
SWF.
loadMovie("photos-color.swf", "color");
then it loads the movie and shows the clip of the pictures
and works fine for what i want it to do.
but if i click on B/W, then return to COLOR, the whole
downloading starts again.
i hope that explains it better.
All i really want to have happen is to have the file download
the first time and when revisited, just open up as if it were just
placed there.
I am hoping explaining the layout might help.

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Hey guys, I am really in need of an answer here. I would tremendously grateful if someone has the answer. I'll keep it simple and right to the point:
1. I have created "index.swf" in AS3. Has it's own "MainClass" class.
2. I created "holder.swf" which is the main landing page. Has 2 buttons, for the viewer to load the site in fullscreen or standard.
3. In the timeline of "holder.swf" I have created 2 frames, 1st frame containing the buttons, second frame containing the AS3 external swf loader script.
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THANK YOU SO MUCHO.
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Hey kglad,
Thanks for the quick reply!
Well here is the problem... With the exception of a few things I need to update, as well as implementing some better preloaders etc... the site is running alright...
About a week ago I decided that I wanted to site to start with the above landing page. A simple "holder.swf" which would give the viewer something to look at before entering the site... (ideally I want to find a script that will begin loading "index.swf" while the viewer is still on "holder.swf", but I'll figure that out later).
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package {
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For example, external swf's stage dimensions are 100x150, but
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So when I load this external movie (banner.swf), I can see
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positioning
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find a way to get adobe air/flash to not consider the off stage elements on the width/height we set to the movie.
find a way to get the stage size from the external movie and use that to auto calculate the resize needed.
any other alternative that allows to have the same end result, which is loading up the external content at the size we specify and displaying well. We can actually hide content outside the stage, but we still need to know the appropiate scale / size to apply to the movie so what's visible matches the are where we want to show the content.

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Crash output:
Error: Error #2094: Event dispatch recursion overflow.
at
flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.display::Stage/dispatchEvent()
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org.papervision3d.core.utils.virtualmouse::VirtualMouse/::handleUpdate()
at
flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at
org.papervision3d.core.utils.virtualmouse::VirtualMouse/update()
at
org.papervision3d.core.utils.virtualmouse::VirtualMouse/setLocation()
at
org.papervision3d.core.utils::InteractiveSceneManager/org.papervision3d.core.utils:Intera ctiveSceneManager::handleMouseMove()
at
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at org.papervision

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You may want to try to instantiate the thing not through
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INIT event listener.
You may want to try accessing their application domain and
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what to access. For instance there is
org.papervision3d.core.utils.InteractiveSceneManager class.
I don't say anything new but it looks like there is the same
event flying around which is dispatched by some listener causing
recursion. Can it be that your custom events have the same type as
theirs? Try to listen to their events through making listener
listen in capture phase by setting third parameter to true:
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The first is that when loading an external swf in my main SWF I get this in the output window:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at audio_fla::list_1/frame1()
at flash.display::Sprite/constructChildren()
at flash.display::Sprite()
at flash.display::MovieClip()
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var percent:String = "";
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var i:uint = 0;
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var songlist:XMLList;
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     thbx.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, onOut);
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     if (i<totalThumbs){
          callThumbs();
     if (i==totalThumbs){
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     songlist = myXML.*;;//this is the same as myXML.*;
     trace("This is the first song "+songlist[0].@song);
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next_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, nextSong);
prev_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, prevSong);
pause_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,pauseSong);
stop_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,stopSong);
function nextSong(e:Event):void
     if (currentIndex < (songlist.length() - 1))
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          currentIndex = 0;
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     var nextTitle:Sound = new Sound(nextReq);
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     sc = nextTitle.play();
     songPlaying = true;
     currentSound = nextTitle;
     sc.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, nextSong);
function prevSong(e:Event):void
     if (currentIndex > 0)
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function playSong(e:Event):void
     if(songPlaying == false)
          sc = currentSound.play(pos);
          sc.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, nextSong);
          songPlaying = true;
          play_btn.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,playSong);
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     pos = 0;
     songPlaying = false;
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var xMin:Number = 0;
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import flash.net.NetStream;
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import flash.display.MovieClip;
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