'Load external movie clip' behavior

I am currently working on a flash movie that loads with an
animation and stops to show four buttons that are then supposed to
load external .swf files when clicked (released). While the
behaviors and actions I have set all work fine when I test the
movie in Flash, when all the files are uploaded to my server, the
external movie clip does not load, and the message in the bottom
left corner of the browser hangs at waiting for
www.panoramalotforsale.com...
Anybody any idea what I'm doing wrong?

When everything works fine locally, but fails to load live on
your webserver, there is of course a pathing problem.
So, in your flash, when you call loadMovie, try using a full
path to the external file your trying to load.
So for example, instead of "/movies'/myexample.swf", do "
http://www.yoursite.com/movies/myexample.swf".
Make sure you keep the
http:// though.

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how to control a mc inside a loaded external movie?
so I have a main.swf, loaded a ex.swf into it by using loadMovie, and inside ex.swf there is a mc called 'mc'
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Hi team,
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Hey worked it out guys!
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();                     // create a new instance of the Loader class
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sub

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Hello forum members,
I've run into a bit of an irritating problem and perhaps
someone can clue me in to the answer.
I'm creating a SWF which uses loadMovie (I've also tried
creating a MovieClipLoader instance and using instance.loadClip) to
bring in 2 other SWFs.
See below AS in first couple frames of main movie's
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First movie:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("mcToolbar", 10);
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When viewing this version of the web page with my main SWF
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I've done some further testing and find that FlashObject
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children' is the error you're getting - this would indicate that
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