Flash CS4 IDE based project and embed metadata tags

I posted this in one of the other sub-forums before I realised this one was available.
I am moving over to using the Flex based embed metadata tags to import assets into my Flash CS4 IDE based project. This is working very well but I have hit one small problem - how do you now create a pre-loader? I've done the usual google to look for a solution and found many Flex based solutions and tried them all out but they do not appear to work from within a CS4 IDE based project - even when tried out on a web page.
Is there a solution to this?

I'm doing the same thing, it's great to have the embed function, but the swf loads all embed content before anything else. This for me makes the feature useless. I make games and game sites want everything in one swf, so making a separate swf preloader wont work for me. Hope Adobe creates a solution for this.
Here are my post on the subject:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/499997?tstart=0
and
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/499994?tstart=0
Also I submitted a feature request with Adobe, I suggest you do the same.
good luck!

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> Was wondering if you could recommend the publish and
save
> settings in Flash CS4 when working with ActionScript
2.0.
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> What are my publish settings?
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http://tinyurl.com/dpsFoundationFlashCS4
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