Sync movie clips loaded by swfloader

hi guys,
i have 5 separate movie clips (swf) represent 5 flower petals,
each of them is showing up from center,
i load them in flex app by 5 separate mx:SWFLoader tags.
the problem is they should sync with each other to open up the flower,
but due to being loaded from network, they don't start at the same time.
please help me, how to sync these flower petals?

according to http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/mx/controls/SWFLoader.h tml
it doesn't seem like SWFLoader has a method called "rewind()" or "gotoAndPlay(...)"?

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