Actionscript optimization with AS3

I am using a a AS3 slider (a great script which can be found at http://www.blog.noponies.com/archives/51) to load a number of SWF files, which in turn, each load text from the smae XML file:

var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, showXML);
xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("slideimages.xml"));
function showXML(e:Event):void {
XML.ignoreWhitespace = true;
var promotion:XML = new XML(e.target.data);
this.line1.line1.text = promotion.slide[0].line1.text()
this.line2.line2.text = promotion.slide[0].line2.text()
this.playfree.playfree.playfree.text = promotion.slide[0].playfree.text()

}

The problem is that the banner (which is located at http://spicytest.com/banner/) takes way too many resources. about 110mb ram when running in firefox and quite a lot of processing power.

My 2 questions:

1) Is there a way to load the XML file in the main slider instead on each and every slide? and will that optimize the banner at all

2) the banner must support 7 languages, is there a friendly way of setting the character glyphs (ie. create one textfield that loads all the glyphs and run different instances of it?)? I noticed that the file size increases quite a lot when I add the glyphs on each and every text field (which are not runtime)

Thanks,
Ian

Actionscript optimization with AS3 - two questions