Transition - not so smoothe

Hey there, I am using this tutorial for reference:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions.htm

My intro and outros work fine and the movies load. Problem is there is a half second when the player shows the main .swf holding the target MC. I have the same image at the end of movie1.swf and movie2.swf. So I would think that when movie2.swf is called to load at the end of movie1.swf you would not see the image drop out. Is it possible to make this any smoother of a transition.

See here. Tour link works.
http://www.conspirator.org/test2.htm

thx!
j