Flash 8 - Help w xml image gallery, thumbnails for each image

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Hey.

New here and have found some really good tutorials! Thanks.
I desperately need a bit of help with some Actionscripting if anyone has any ideas how to do this?
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]I have created a photo gallery using the kirupa tutorial. That works fine. Now for each main image that the code cycles through my client wants 1-3 thumbnails to display on the side of the image and they should all be clickable and display full size in place of the main image when clicked. The previous and next buttons should still only go through the main images. Here is the xml code (as I imagine it should look like):[/SIZE][/FONT] [/SIZE][/FONT]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?> images/bowandkey_main.jpg Bow and Key Necklace: £225.00 Mother of pearl (or onyx) necklace with silver-plated bow and key, cast from vintage originals thumbnails/bowandkey_main.jpg thumbnails/bowandkey_portrait.jpg thumbnails/bowandkey_closeup.jpg images/bowandkey2_main.jpg Bow and Key Necklace: £230.00 Onyx necklace with silver-plated bow and key, cast from vintage originals thumbnails/bowandkey2_main.jpg thumbnails/bowandkey2_portrait.jpg images/crossedfingers.jpg Crossed Fingers Necklace: £150.00 Solid silver crossed fingers good luck charm, cast from 1940s celluloid gumball toy, strung on mother of pearl or onyx beads. thumbnails/crossedfingers_main.jpg thumbnails/crossedfingers_closeup.jpg ```

The thumb 1,2 and 3 are childNodes of thumbnail.

I have created a MovieClip holder to hold the thumbnails. Could someone please show me how to add to the Actionscript so that it loops through (displays) the thumb1 - thumb 3 for each main image? I suppose I would have to store the thumbnails for each image in separate folders so the flash can determine the length of the array of thumbnails for each image? And then make them clickable.

I am pulling my hair out here not getting this working… Any hinters on what to do would be greatly appreciated!

Here is the actionscript code for the image gallery:

 
function loadXML(loaded) { 
if (loaded) { 
xmlNode = this.firstChild; 
image = []; 
caption = [];
description = []; 
total = xmlNode.childNodes.length; 
for (i=0; i<total; i++) { 
image* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue; 
caption* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue; 
description* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue; 
} 
firstImage(); 
} else { 
content = "file not loaded!"; 
} 
} 
xmlData = new XML(); 
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true; 
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML; 
xmlData.load("images.xml"); 
///////////////////////////////////// 
listen = new Object(); 
listen.onKeyDown = function() { 
if (Key.getCode() == Key.LEFT) { 
prevImage(); 
} else if (Key.getCode() == Key.RIGHT) { 
nextImage(); 
} 
}; 
Key.addListener(listen); 
previous_btn.onRelease = function() { 
prevImage(); 
}; 
next_btn.onRelease = function() { 
nextImage(); 
}; 
///////////////////////////////////// 
p = 0; 
this.onEnterFrame = function() { 
filesize = picture.getBytesTotal(); 
loaded = picture.getBytesLoaded(); 
preloader._visible = true; 
if (loaded != filesize) { 
preloader.preload_bar._xscale = 100*loaded/filesize; 
} else { 
preloader._visible = false; 
if (picture._alpha<100) { 
picture._alpha += 10; 
} 
} 
}; 
function nextImage() { 
if (p<(total-1)) { 
p++; 
if (loaded == filesize) { 
picture._alpha = 0; 
picture.loadMovie(image[p], 1); 
cap_txt.text = caption[p];
desc_txt.text = description[p]; 
picture_num(); 
} 
} 
} 
function prevImage() { 
if (p>0) { 
p--; 
picture._alpha = 0; 
picture.loadMovie(image[p], 1); 
cap_txt.text = caption[p];
desc_txt.text = description[p]; 
picture_num(); 
} 
} 
function firstImage() { 
if (loaded == filesize) { 
picture._alpha = 0; 
picture.loadMovie(image[0], 1); 
cap_txt.text = caption[0];
desc_txt.text = description[0];
picture_num(); 
} 
} 
function picture_num() { 
current_pos = p+1; 
pos_txt.text = current_pos+" / "+total; 
}

Thanks!!