[F8] How to prevent External MCs slow downs?

[Waltman]

Hey FKers, thanks for taking the time!

Can anyone tell me how come an external MC slows down the main timeline? you can see what I mean if you go to:

http://www.e-vendorslist.com/weddings/

If you click on the round buttons below you immediately will notice how the rest of the content speeds up. So I'm guessing it's because of the bottom menu.

I am using a carousel menu I got from gotoandlearn.com (excelent flash tutorials site by the way). The button images are very light SWFs instead of the bitmap files originally used by Lee Brimelow in his tutorial. And if run that menu separately it runs fine, no slowdown, but on the above website I am loading that menu and the 2 side menus from external SWFs.

This is how I'm loading all 3 external MCs on the main timeline:

this.createEmptyMovieClip("carouselHolder", this.getNextHighestDepth());
var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
mcLoader.loadClip("carousel_menu_w2.swf", carouselHolder);
carouselHolder._y = 130;

this.createEmptyMovieClip("lmenuHolder", 2);
var mcLoader2:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
mcLoader2.loadClip("left_menu.swf", lmenuHolder);
lmenuHolder._y = 30;
lmenuHolder._x = -5;

this.createEmptyMovieClip("rmenuHolder", 3);
var mcLoader3:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
mcLoader3.loadClip("right_menu.swf", rmenuHolder);
rmenuHolder._y = 30;
rmenuHolder._x = 780; 

Any ideas? or maybe on the carousel_menu_w2.swf side?
I know it's not the size of the other elements, otherwise after you click the bottom buttons the speed would be the same, nor the size of the bottom menu either because like I said, loading the menu alone works fine.

I'd appreciate any help thank you!

[Waltman]

Nobody? come on...at least an idea?