background image display,

hello, I wanted to have a graphic display behind my flash movie,

so I looked at changing the html, that changed the background and the background of the movie changed to black, so that when the preloader started, it was just black, with a few colors showing, my question is if I wanted a background graphic to display behind the movie, could I create a larger file with the background graphic loading first, then I want to load movie, to a larger swf file, and I think from reading some other tutorials that I sould be able to make the background transparent allowing the background graphic to diaplay behind the main movie.

I am just a beginner so I know this may seem simple but to me I cant figure out the GUI, the action script makes the most sense to me, but the GUI Im lost.

I tried a variety of action scripting to try and get the background to load the main movie, http://www.musicforthemoment.net/fla...way/index.html