This should work, but doesn't... actionScript issues

So I’m making this actionscripted thing to look like a cube spinning with externally loaded pictures. I haven’t used flash in a little while, so I don’t even know if there’s an easier way to do this.

The zip I’ve added is the one that’s not working correctly. It’s like the movieClip ‘holder2’ is ignored. Now here’s the wierd part…

If you delete frame one and uncomment the array called ‘pics’ (obviously the array loaded in from the text file pics.txt)… So all you have is one frame with actions and nothing else. Test the movie and it works correctly. What the??

Or even better, move the LoadVars() to the frame leftover after you delete the first frame and it will work, but the first couple images are undefined because the script is executed too quickly, hence the first frame…

What am I missing?