Sound Starts before Movie Loads Completely

I'm using Flash Pro MX 2004 and I've created a movie with a
progress bar and loader. I've used the progress bar and loader
components that comes with Flash.
I use the loader to load a movie that contains a soundtrack
sync'd to the movie. My problem is that the sound begins to play
even though the movie isn't fully loaded and the progress bar is
still "progressing." I've tried inserting a frame at the beginning
of the movie that plays the soundtrack so that the sound isn't
loaded on the first frame but that doesn't seem to help.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to fix this?

if all your sound instances are the same:
var s:Sound = new Sound(this);
you can use:
s.setVolume(0);
to make it seem that all sounds have been stopped throughout your app.
however, if you use different sound instances you'll need to use a variable to indicate you don't want to (re)start any sounds.

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