Images and Flash Catalyst.

I have an incredibly complex and image heavy website that I am building and I want to use Catalyst to build it. If I do the dozens of images that are involved in this build make the file size of the SWF way too big and the download would literally take an hour or so. I want to know if it is possible to link the image files externally from the SWF so the site can download really fast and the images download when the pages they are on is called.
I was thinking that this type of thing would require the use of Flex to access and rebuild the code linking to the image files so they could be stored elsewhere, maybe the assests folder. If so then I can create the entire UI in Flash and have the images linked elsewhere. I thought perhaps to build the image libraries (over forty image groups spread out over 60 pages) in Flash and link it as a seperate set of SWFs but I need to know more about how this works.
Any insights would be great.
Thank You,
Brett

(Sorry for my bad english, I have a french version and do not know the terms in english)
About pictures, to keep small the swf file, one solution is to store them in the 'assets' folder.
To do this : open 'bibliotheque',( beside 'calcs'), right clic over the names of the pictures and select 'link ...)
The 'assets' folder is loaded with the swf file to the server.
You can also simplify the pictures (but loss of quality) ...
In my site, all the big pictures and the videos are linked, the thumbs remain in swf file.
Hope this helps.
http://www.8-16-chalonnais.org

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