External movies and preloaders!

i dunno if anyone’s had this problem or knows how to solve it but any help would be greatly appreciated! here goes…

my movie resides completely on the first frame and i have external videos (quicktime movies converted into swf files) that are loaded in when the user clicks a button. this is all groovey and works fine; however, the size of the project is such that it now requires a preloader. i moved the movie to frame 2 and built a bog standard preloader in frame 1 but whenever the external swf movies load in, the playhead jumps to frame 1 and the whole lot starts again. i have added a stop() command to the first frame of the main movie but still no joy. if anyone has any ideas, please, please let me know…

chees