Preloader not working for 35 MB swf file. Please help!

Question

Hello,
I'm working on a glorified slideshow, it has a music track that is 3+ minutes long, pretty nice graphics, and transitions. I started builing in Flash and am halfway done... it looks great too !
Problem is, when I'm testing the preloader with the download profiler set to DSL - it crawls and at 1% and on, the soundtrack starts to play... by the time the download is at 42% its at least a minute into the soundtrack and it's in and out, coming on then cutting out but not starting over. Needless to say, this is not okay! I know it's a huge file. SHould I maybe export it as an mov and put it in a FLV player?
Thanks for reading & helping
Ms.Lee

Answer 1

Ok, so my preloader code was all wrong, now it's this:
import flash.events.ProgressEvent;
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("HitTheGround6.swf");
var ldr:Loader = new Loader();
this.addChild(ldr);
ldr.x=0;
ldr.y=0;
ldr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
ldr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, progressHandler);
ldr.load(request);
function progressHandler(evt:ProgressEvent):void {
    var percent:Number = evt.target.bytesLoaded / evt.target.bytesTotal;
    preloader.fill.scaleX = percent;
function completeHandler(evt:Event):void {
    this.removeChild(preloader);
    evt.target.content.gotoAndPlay(2);  //this is the key
This awesome blog post has the files & explaination!!!
http://www.negush.net/blog/how-to-preload-as3-clips/