Preloader for external jpgs in sliding gallery problem

this is a question i intial had for STRINGY, but im opening it to anyone who can help

i have a sliding gallery STRINGY was so wonderfully kind to help/provide me with.
(thanx - yet agiain :smirk: )

though this is a concept fla, he eluded to the fact that with more and larger images, it will more than likely not be as smooth until ALL the images have loaded (into the browser cache i think).

with my gallery - with so many largish images, there is delay in the availablility when calling latter images immediatly after appearing on screen(i.e: if instantly calling pic 7 of 10 when the swf loads in the browser)

so far if i was to press lets say pic5 and above immediatly, no image is available - that is until around 15 seconds or so have passed;then all pics regardless of which one is called is available and the slider works as expected.

My Question to you all is how and where can i place some kind of preloader, so’s to give the viewer some feedback on the situation.

As you can see, im stumped once again - many apologies.

i have uploaded you the fla STRINGY provided for me if that would help.