Movie Loader - Unload loader

I’m new to flash, but program in many other languages.
My movies are getting real large, so I needed to make a loader
program, that tells the user that the big movie is loading.
One thing that I have noticed, is that the loader loads the
movie and the movie plays, but the loader is still running in the
background. I can see the loader there if the movie does not have a
background to cover the loader.
Do I need to unload the loader, or is this just normal?
Plus, sometimes the loader loads the movie, but the movie is
already in play for about 5 seconds on slow downloads.
Below is my code. Any help or knowledge would be much
appreciated.

Well, some of these are so old I don't think tween extensions were really a thing yet. - Like Flash 6/7 content. Also, even some animations in Flash 8 etc. were very potpourri. I have no idea what I did on what occasion as I don't have the FLAs for a number of these portfolio examples.
I typically use TweenLite/TweenMax though. Before that I did use the flash.mx tween coding. I don't know when I made the transition. Late '07 I think.
I've found that all I can use in my current site is old school timeline-based frame animations because the player doesn't cash out info or something. Anything built in movieclips at all instead of on the main timeline gets ignored the second time around and doesn't play.
I'm lucky I have a at least a few that I did that or my entire portfolio site would be crapped. And I rebuilt this thing because AS2 didn't have frameRate controls. Meanwhile, a year and a half later, now this.
I can't do rich media examples, only standard banners, but it's at least something until I get more in my portfolio. I tried doing video grabs using Screenflow but cropping things perfectly was agonizing. So this is pretty much where it stands unless there's some kind of refresh command to communicate with the player above the DisplayContainer.
I haven' the foggiest what that might be.

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// ISSUE 1 //
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