hey mike thanks for the tip

...again.
have you ever used the movieClipLoader?
most of the articles I have been reading the past day and a half all kinda mention this ...to use that along with an eventListener
i found some really great tutorials on
senocular.com : News I'm going to try the one about the preloaders, it gives 5 samples so i'm hoping one of them works for me
and maybe skip down to the broadcasting tutorial as well...it might come in handy shortly