Progress Bars in Flash

Hi, I'm pretty much a novice at this- so am completely
baffled by what to do...
Basically, I have a seies of pictures and captions that I
want to make a flash progress loading bar to go before.
I've looked at the demo and online files- and, have managed
to get a bar working. However, when I implement my existing swf
file as the contentPath, it loads, but only shows the final image,
and wil not navigate through the others.
I have used the template for a photo slideshow in Flash 8,
which I have edited with my own graphics, and exported this to the
swf file that I have been trying to use.
Any ideas- this is driving me mad- especially as I don't
completely "get" flash yet...
thanks!!

I think you are saying you are using the Flash 8 Photo
SlideShows template and trying to customize it with a preloader.
I took a look at the code inside of it and here are some
comments to consider.
The problem with that is you would likely need to use the
first frame or first three frames depending on the preloader
solution. Preloaders need to be lightweight and before the heavy
content.
This would mean all the picture layer frames would need to
move right. The Actionscript in the template uses a function called
_currentframe for the image number in the controller. So that
Actionscript would need changing to handle the frame number offset
for example if you move everything to start at frame 4 all the
scripts need to add 4 to where _currentframe is used.
So if you are comfortable with dealing with the Actionscript
updates and getting the movie to work starting on a frame greater
than 1, then you can pursue a preloader.
A preloader would be necessary if you think the time it takes
for the first frame to show is too long and that the user would be
quick to click the forward button to go to additional frames before
the bitmaps are downloaded. Otherwise the preloader need may be
unnecessary because all the remaining frames will be progressively
downloaded while the visitor is looking at the first image.

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