How prevent movie from loading completely before playing?

Hi,
how do I prevent an swf from loading completely before
starting to play in the browser? When simulating a download in the
Flash application, several preload stages work perfectly, but not
in the browser. Preload stages don't appear, instead it takes ages
for the 3.5 mb file to completely load before displaying the first
frame of the movie.
I have tried inversing the load order in export settings and
different flash versions, but just can't get it to work.
Can someone help? Thank you!

hi kglad
I thought it should be that way; the point is that I don't
want to add code that loads the entire movie before starting to
play the first frame, but only a certain number of frames (i.e. 11
out of 35, for example). I'm trying to do this with this code in
the first frame:
ifFrameLoaded (11) {
gotoAndPlay("start");
in the simulation, it works perfectly, but when uploading the
movie and viewing it in html, the entire thing loads, and the
preloader doesn't appear.
Many thanks for your help.

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