Help and advice on my site please? ...Pretty please?

Hi all,
This is one of my first posts on the site.
I guess I'm pretty much a basic user in Flash, in comparison to many of the ridiculous apps and functions you can create currently.
I'm using CS4 and haven't made the jump to AS 3.0 as of yet.
I'd really appreciate it if anyone could give me some feedback on the site I'm working on for my band as below:
http://bbcpluto.webs.com/
I'm aware that it takes a ridiculous time to load, which I'm working on. I know that as soon as I remove the thumbnails on the images section and replace with links to external photo galleries, I will be freeing up around 1mb which is currently taken up by the thumbnails.
Any other ideas how I can speed up the load? And, with it currently being tested on a free 'webs' account, will this contribute to the slow loading time?

Looking forward to much constructive criticism and advice/tips etc.
Cheers.
Chaz

Amazing design. It just seemed a little choppy in the beginning. Like it was done frame by frame instead of tweening. But it could just be my malfunctioning pc. >:-(

Wow! Thanks so much man!:)
I think the total filesize is around 2.5mb currently, so I'm working on shrinking it down to a more streamline size. I'm in the process of removing all thumbnails and replacing them with a selection of links to external flash galleries, hopefully removing all those thumbnails will free up a few 100 kb?

I've also adjusted the properties of most of the images (buttons, site template etc.) within the flash library, so that they are apparently rendered as 'lossless png' and 'high quality'. My logic was that they obviously looked smooth, as prior to this, they were slightly pixelated upon importing into flash. However, I'm guessing that those property changes aren't gonna be doing my site any favours in terms of speed and smooth running etc?

Also, someone told me that the 'Alpha' transparency property can make the swf really cumbersome, I never had any idea of that, and as such, I've probably overdone the 'Alpha' tweened transitions.
To be honest, now that I know, I bet there's many more efficient ways that I could achieve similar effects in transitions right? I'm just pretty amateur with the construction of Flash based content at this moment in time.
Hopefully though, once I've swapped the thumbnails for gallery links, readjusted image properties and removed any pointless alpha tweens, the site should run smoother. Fingers crossed.

Sorry for the massive reply.
Thanks again for your kind comment, it is so much appreciated!!:D

I would change the scroll to match the colors you are using.

PHP Code:

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myScollBar.setStyle("themeColor", "0x2E964D"); 


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Awesome!!
Thanks for the code.
Sorry for being such a newb, but do I assume that it's to be added to my html? Or is it to be included in the ActionScript somehow?

Cheers!
:)