Most of my movie loads in frame 0

Hello,
I try to put a preloader on my movie but (according to
"simulate
preloading" most of the items loads on frame zero (yes 0) ...
so the
preloader appears only *after* most of it has been loaded. Is
there a
way to go around this.
Explanation.:
The _root contains :
Frame 1: a preloader
Frame 3: some components, a holder_mc which in turn contains
a page_mc
containing serveral other Movie Clips. The entie thing is
approx 500Kb.
When I simulate download on Flash8 (AS 2.0) most of the
loading (approx
350 Kb) is done before my preloader (in frame one of the
root) has a
chance to appear.
Regards
Henri

Google 'Perian' and 'Flip4Mac' — these are the extensions that will make QT play other file formats.
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Download the free VLC Player from here:
http://www.videolan.org
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