Preload XML Photo Gallery?

Thanks to the XML photo Gallery tutorial I found here on Kirupa I’m nearly finished with my project.

The one remaining thing is to add an initial preloader to my over all gallery.

I’m running into a wall with a preloader lag on the first frame. I have read up on the “1st Frame” issue…
ie: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=227734&highlight=1st+frame

and have tried to apply this fix to no avail. I have turned off the first frame linkage to all the library elements as well as changed the export settings to the 2nd frame but, still the bandwidth profiler has me at over 30K on frame 1 - with nothing on it… ?

Are there any other factors i need to consider being this is a dynamic XML gallery?
Any ideas or direction on how this may be resolved?

Many thanks…
> j