Loading the same image multiple times

Question

I'm trying to dynamically load a single image multiple times
into flash. Basically I want to end up with two movieclips mc1 and
mc2 that contain the image. I'm currently using the Loader
component (connected to the ProgressBar) to dynamically load the
image. It works fine for loading the image once but I'm really not
sure how to go about creating a second movie clip with the image.
Here's my code for loading the first image:
var mc1:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
var listener:Object = new Object();
listener.complete = function(eventObj:Object){
nextFrame();
imageLoader.addEventListener("complete", listener);
mc1 = imageLoader.content;
imageLoader.load(imgURL);
But everything I've tried to load mc2 with that same image
has failed. I've tried 'mc2 = imageLoader.content', 'mc2 = mc1',
'attachMovie', 'duplicateMovieClip', calling imageLoader.load()
twice on the imgURL, and creating a second Loader component and
loading the image again. All of these methods have invariably
failed. Most of them can load mc1 alright and sometimes mc2 even
shows up on the stage but in the AS mc2 is always undefined.
Can anybody point me in the right direction for loading
multiple copies of the same image? It really shouldn't be that
hard, should it?

Answer 1

Well I figured out a solution. Turns out Flash doesn't allow
you to duplicate dynamically loaded content like an image in a
movieclip. But there is a little class called BitmapData that will
do precisely what I was looking for. Here's the link I got this
info from:
http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.174