Stack Lag, Simultaneous addChild/addtoState Issues

Question

It would be great if someone could help explain a few issues
I have been having:
- The main issue I have been dealing with is a lag time
between addChild/removeChild and the load of the Images, and the
actual finished load of the images (complete with height and
width). Is there a hack that properly checks and halts all other
code until the action is off the stack?
For my particular application, when I check if the object
exists as a child admist addChild/removeChild calls, sometimes it
is and sometimes its not. I'm currently using a hack to make sure
the height and width values are loaded, but I don't know enough
about the internal architecture to write a hack for
addChild/removeChild calls on the stack.
- Is there a function that checks if an object exists as a
child without throwing an error if it is not? It seems everything
that getChildIndex, etc will throw runtime errors if it is not a
child. While it may be a workaround to catch the errors, it still
doesn't return the existence of the object as a child.
- Is there a way to simultaneously add a child to a specific
position to an displayobject and a mxml defined state?
Thanks!

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