Dynamic MC creation

Hello.

I have a movie clip that gets scrolled across the screen. Within this mc are multiple images, all the same size, one right after another, that are basically getting scrolled across the screen. I’m trying to figure out a way to load images from a specified folder into this scolling mc rather than embedding the files so that I can change them dynamically. Also, the number of files in the folder may change, so this would effect the length of the mc. I would need a way for the flash file to either recognize how many images there were in the folder, or if there was an external document (like XML) that I could simply change out the number to corespond with the number of images in the folder.

Hope this makes sense. As always, any help is much appreciated.

regards