Preloader doesn't work on the Net

[FloppyFox]

I'm a beginner in Flash.
I made a web site that has a main swf which loads a bunch of swfs into empty Mcs that are in it.
in these external swfs I loaded flv's and animations.

problem:
exporting in Flash works Perfect(!) but wont work on the net:
the first time I load the site it shows a blank frame for a long time,
then, it starts loading from 40%. after it's finished, some of the
swf's that are supposed to be loaded are missing!

I saw the gotoandlearn() Advanced Flash Preloader - and realized that this might be my problem - the bandwidth profiler shows that my first frame is extremely large but following the tutorial didn't help to reduce it.

so my questions:
are there other ways to reduce the size of the first frame which are not shown in the tutorial?
and also, what might cause some of the swf's not to load?

Thanks in advance!

Floppy

[BLiZZaRD]

Without file or site link we can only speculate. You can make a preloader before frame1 (the large one) basically make the 2 frame preloader and move the entire movie down 2 frames.

You can load the spikes, preload from another page... lots of options.

As for the missing swf's make sure the AS is calling them correctly, and that they are in the same directory as the loading swf.