Website design still kinda slow

Hi there,
Basically I have been struggling with my 1st flash webiste, just about bodged it together, but it is loading terribly slowly.
http://www.siobhannolan.co.uk/tester/
Having consulted someone on this site, I reduced the xml loading and optimised all the jpegs, which made a lil difference, but its still horribly slow.
I've had a bit of trouble with the dynamic buttons too, when I added a second line of text they would overlap the btn below, to counter this I added blank xml nodes between the problem buttons,which sort of sorted the issue (although when you click on one of these a second time they load the wrong page), I read somewhere that unnessasary xml code can slow down a webite, plus my freind whos site it is keeps getting the old "some code in the site is causing your computer to run slowly" msg (her internets slower than mine.)
I'm also wondering if the amount of images in the swfs is slowing it down (some of the swfs are coming in at more than 4mb) - was I wrong to ditch the dynamic loading? or is there another way to compress the swfs?
Any help will as ever be graciously recieved, kind regards and fingers crossed D.

I don't know what browser you use, but if you have Safari as an option,
I'd advise looking at the activity of your website (Window>Activity).
The preloading, is relatively normal for a flash website and not too long to bore people wishing to visit your site, according to surveys.
However, when you visit the projects section - this is where the problems start.
The way in which you have organised content on your website means huge 4mb, as you states, file sizes for each section. As Ned has already pointed out, 4mb is not good.. In terms of a design perspective, the content is firstly, not necessarily all worthwhile, and secondly, if it is, why not distribute it around the website, with a few subheadings? If you're new to flash this would be relatively easy to do and would save the hassle of resizing all your content (though, it would definitely be worthwhile!)
So to conclude, basically, it's your structure.
You've placed too much content in one place and the best advise I could give, is to distribute it elsewhere, or remove.
I hope you get this fixed!
Regards.

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