Preloaders

Hi there.

I’m a Kirupa newbie, and due to unable of finding a common ‘help’ forum I’m posting this in here because Flash 8 is what I’m using.

I’m also an actionscript newbie, and recently I started creating Flash sites. What I usually do is just copy paste script from sites such as Kirupa and edit them to work in the way I want them. (This to illustrate my lack of AS knowledge)

Alright, so here’s my problem:

I’ve been working a site that’s all fine and dandy, preloader working and all, most of it is made using MC tween.

But now I’ve added all these jpgs that made the loading time waaay too long.
The jpgs exist in a seperate movieclip that simply alphas to 100 when the navigation button to that movieclip is clicked.

Now I need a way to load that movieclip seperately from the main scene. I’ve tried adding a keyframe on the first frame of the movieclip and placing a simple preloader there, but the preloader that loads at the start of the entire site just loads the movieclip as well, while I want it to load seperately from that. (may be confusing, I’m not much of a comprehensive writer)

Can anyone help me on this? If you need more information on anything, just ask what.

Thanks!