Preloader In Flash

Hi Everyone,
I am facing a very peculiar problem while creating a preloader in flash. I have created a flash image gallary entirely in flash as requested. And a preloader.
Now when I test my movie in local machine using situmate download feature the preloader works just fine. However when I upload it on the server the first frame of the preloader can be seen and it freezes therenothing happens though after some time the movie loads and rest of the animation then plays fine. I have checked my code it doesnt give any error on compiling.
I would highly appreciate if some body could help me, where is this problem coming from
The flash SWF is being inserted in a Joomla driven website. However, that will not be a cause of problem I guess as an old preloader seems to run fine.
I am using Flash CS5 Demo. I also tried saving file in CS4 and then publishing it. Still no luck.
Would like help on this
Thanks in Advance
Bhuvan

I have couple of questions but not sure whether it will be relevant to your problem since there is no detailed information. If it is working locally it should work on web server.
Are you sure there are no exceptions thrown while accessing the swf after hosting ? Also can you check for any inifinte loops in Preloader ?
Thanks,
~ K

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