Got a loading problem.

I have a series of swf's which load on each other. It involves a clock and in the centre of the clock some images which fade in and out "images.swf".

The clocks hands are in a seperate movie "hands.swf" on top of the images and run smoothly before the "images.swf" loads in, but as soon as "images.swf" loads in it slows down the "hands.swf" considerably.

Does anyone know why a movie on a different level is affected by another above or below it?

I've already gone through 2 monitors, through frustration the first one ended up 5 floors out of my window on someone's car bonnet, and you don't even want to know what I have done with the other.

Any help much appreciated.
[Edited by gecko2 on 03-29-2001 at 10:34 AM]