Preloader advancing to frame to quickly

I have 5 scenes in my fla so far. When I load my preloader
the dynamic text shows the percentage and when it gets to about 60%
(which is when the home scene is finished loading) it advances to
the home page while still loading the following scenes. I need to
figure out how to get it to load all scenes before advancing to my
home page. Thanks in advance for the advice.

Also, here is my link to it:
http://lilmansgraphics.bravehost.com/.
It isn't nearly completed because I can't get past this
loading-bar problem. Also i tried putting everything in one scene
and it still advanced when there was only 60% of it loaded.
Edit: Also taking out "gotoAndStop(percent);", didn't help
it.

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