External picture time loading in FF x IE - Ouch!!!

Hi,

This is really weird and I have no idea what could be causing this.
I have this simple Flash site:

http://ballooncreator.com/pc/samples...one/home2.html

It have an interface that loads a few external JPG images.

The problem is that with IE it take about four times (or even more) the time to load the pictures than with FF. In a slow connection such as a 128K one the main interface takes the same time to load either on FF aswel IE - about 5-10 seconds. Then, it starts loading the external pictures - in FF it will take about 20 seconds more and in IE it will take about 80 seconds!

Since the problem is not in the site loading itself, but in the external pictures loading, I can't see what in the browser could be interfering in the SWF!

Any clues???

Here the code that I use to spawn the loaders:

Code:

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function LoadPics()
{
        _root.TotalPicsLoaded = 0;
        _root.TotalPicsToLoad = _root.aPics.length;
       
        // load pics from disk
        for (var z=0;z<=_root.aPics.length-1;z++)
        {
                _root["PicListener"+z] = new Object();

                _root["PicListener"+z].onLoadComplete = function(target_mc:MovieClip):Void
                {
                        _root.TotalPicsLoaded++;
                        if (_root.TotalPicsLoaded == _root.TotalPicsToLoad)
                                _root.StartApplication();
                }

                _root["PicListener"+z].onLoadError = function(target_mc:MovieClip, errorCode:String, httpStatus:Number)
                {
                        trace ("error");
                }
               
                _root.attachMovie("mcPic","mcPic"+z,1000+z)
               
                _root["mcPic"+z]._alpha = 0;
                _root["mcPic"+z]._x = 10000;
                _root["mcPic"+z]._y = _root.PicY;

                _root["PicLoader"+z] = new MovieClipLoader();
                _root["PicLoader"+z].addListener(_root["PicListener"+z]);
                _root["PicLoader"+z].loadClip(_root.Server+"pictures/"+_root.aPics[z].filename,_root["mcPic"+z]);
        }
}

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PS: aPics is an array with the list of pictures to be loaded.