loadmovie help

Why does http://www.rh71.com/projects/henryandterri/gallery/gallery.html(calling .swf) bring up the images... while loadmovie of that gallery.swf in a main.swf brings up this problem - the scroll bar shows, but no pics. What am I doing wrong with the loadmovie ?

For the pictures button:
on (release) {
_root.picsMC.loadMovie("http://www.rh71.com/projects/henryandterri/gallery/gallery.swf");
}

For your reference, I named the MC "picsMC" on the main timeline. The images location is from an .xml document in the /gallery directory (same path as gallery.swf). The gallery.swf loads fine with loadmovie, but it drops the path for the images ?

Been troubleshooting this for 3 hours now... at my wits end... please help.