Reusing dynamically loaded movies

Hello,
I am trying to reuse a dynamically loaded movie which has
been loaded with a movie clip loader. The movie loads fine and can
be displayed once with no problem. However, I would like to be able
to store this movie so that it can be resused again without loading
it from the URL again. Is there a way to do this?
I found this in the docs:
quote:
the problem w/ attachmovie is that one must have a link
identifier (in linkage panel) in order to attach it.
there is no way (that i know of) to attach a *dynamically*
created clip - either by duplicateMovieClip or
createEmptyMovieClip.
I'm hoping this isn't true. What if I had a JPG I loaded
dynamically and I wanted to use it 100 times? I can't imagine
having to load the JPG 100 times.
I need something like attachMovie(), but that only works with
movies that are already in the library. Does anyone know if there a
way to reuse a dynamically loaded movie? I've tried all sort of
combinations of createEmptyMovieClip, duplicateMovieClip, and
attachMovie but nothing has worked.
FYI - I am using Flash 2004 MX Pro and ActionScript 2.0.

yes, load it 100 times. it will be retrieved from the user's
browser cache after the first time so this is not the limitation
you're thinking it might be.

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