Preloader question

After a swf movie loads, is it possible for the main timeline to contine to play? Right now if I don’t put a stop action where I call in my loaed movie, my main time line plays while the called swf file loads, and the end animation is off then. Is there a way to fix this?

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This is in the wrong forum. It should be moved into the Flash Actionscript forum, or MX/MX 2004 forum.