How to load images from file path rather than URL

Hi there folks,

could really do with a quick bit of help, I’m sure its really simple but has got me flumuxed, basically I have been following this tutorial

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/thumbnails3.htm

which after a lot of looking ticked all my boxes for a gallery tutorial, the only problem is that is not finding my images when I change the url location in the tut xml to the root location of my images.

eg " <pic>
<image>http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/pg/stata.jpg</image>" works fine,

" <image>file://cropped files/made/bronze-dress.jpg</image>" doesn’t : (

Any idea as to what I might be doing wrong? do I need to adjust the action script to load a from a root folder? (if so any idea as to how would of course be massively appreciated).

fingers crossed D