Preloader for a scrollPane?

hey all,
i'm loading a large (250k) movie into a scrollPane, and am
having serious issues trying to get a preloader to work in any
fashion. i've tried placing the preloader in the root level, but
the scrollpane forces the 250k to export on first frame to be
functional, thus making the preloader useless. i tries also to put
a preloader into the loaded 250k movie, but that made no
difference. is there a way around this, or are users just going to
have to wait on faith for the blank scrollpane to populate itself?
thanks,
morgan

once again, i answer my own question. i found out that the
preloader wasn't working because the inherent nature of "Export for
ActionScript" necessary for amking a movie loadable into a
ScrollPane loads that content at the very beginning. if you go into
the publish settings for the Flash output and click on the Settings
button next to the ActionScript Version selector, you can set which
frame of the movie you want to expert frames for classes to. set
this to frame 3 (most preloaders take up the first two frames), and
suddenly the preloader functions fine.

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