Alright, I've done some searching on the forums, waded through the threads of people asking how to make preloaders, and this is what I've come up with on making your own custom actionscript preloader.

Koolmoves automatically moves all shapes to the beginning of the movie, where they are loaded on the first frame. You have the option to choose whether you want sounds and images to behave the same way, but you cannot control shapes. The only frames that go before this loading of everything are the preloader frames automatically generated by Koolmoves if you use them.

I want to know if there is a way I can either stop the early loading of shapes as happens in flash mx, or if there's a way that I can just get a frame in before they all load.

I've looked at necromanthus's tutorial on making a preloader to comply with Koolmoves, but it did not work on my movie. To test it I basically just copied-pasted his code only altering the movie width/height variables, to see if it would work. I was going to then manually put in the code for all my shapes I wanted to put in, but the behaviour suprised me. When I went to play my movie, it loaded most of the way up with a blank screen, then at about 80-90% done the loading bar appeared for a couple frames then my movie started.

From what I've read there is no way to stop loading shapes at beginning of movie in Koolmoves, but what I would like to know is if this is planned for future versions, or if anyone else has found a successful way of getting around this.

Thanks in advance
-Gandalf2349