Flash Photogallery with preloader PLEASE HELP!!!

Question

Ok...So after searching quite a bit I found a decent flash tutorial to help me make a photogallery. The only problem is that it takes quite sometime to load. I would like to create preloader for this swf file but I can't get anything to work. Here is the code for my gallery....Found at the bottom of the page at this site...
http://www.republicofcode.com/tutori...egallery/4.php
This all works just fine...but no matter what I do I can't seem to get a preloader for this code to work. If I load a simple image in the second frame it works fine, however if I move my flash gallery to second frame it just goes to my gallery after loading...(which takes a while)..no preloader bar or anything!  Here is a link to my site... www.nakean.com visit the blank page for the photo gallery...you have to wait a bit for it to load.  (15 seconds)..Please Please HELP!

Answer 1

rename your gallery to something other than galleryinprogress.swf, say gallery.swf.
in flash create a new fla named galleryinprogress.fla with the same stage size and background color as your previous galleryinprogress.swf and attached to frame one of your new galleryinprogress.fla add:
var tf:TextField = this.createTextField("tf",1,0,0,100,40);
tf.autoSize = "center";
tf._x = Stage.width/2;
tf._y = Stage.height/2;
this.createEmptyMovieClip("mc",1);
mc.loadMovie("http://homepage.mac.com/nakean/.Public/swf/gallery.swf");
preloadI=setInterval(preloadF,100);
function preloadF(){
tf.text=mc.getBytesLoaded() +" bytes loaded out of "+mc.getBytesTotal()+" bytes total.";
if(mc.getBytesLoaded()>0&&mc.getBytesLoaded()>=mc.getBytesTotal()){
clearInterval(preloadI);
tf.removeTextField();
publish your new galleryinprogress.swf and upload to the same directory as your previous (but now renamed) galleryinprogress.swf.