Transparency with action script

I have a swf file and i want to give it a transparent background to the stage. I understand that it's possible to give it the transparency through the HTML publish setting using the 'transparent windowless' property.
However, i wanted to know whether there's an actionscript property to give the same transparency effect to the stage. like the opactiy or something (sorry, I might be wrong)
The thing is I have a external preloader which loads the content swf and when it gets loaded, the stage loses it's transparency.
any help please with the action script on transparency?

you're either misunderstanding what you see or not accurately explaining what you see.
there's only one html that embeds a swf.  that embedded swf's stage color will be seen (or not depending on the html settings).  no loaded swf's background color will be seen.  all loaded swf graphics will be seen.  everything is this paragraph are facts that you cannot change using actionscript or anything else.
if you removed the graphics from content.swf there's no way it can "still show".  the below paragraph explains the ways you could misinterpret what you're seeing:
if you removed graphics from content.fla and FAILED to publish a new swf, graphics will still show.  and, if you're testing in a browser, and fail to clear your cache you may be seeing an old swf version that still has background and other graphics.

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