Hi there, I've had a search around and can't find what I'm looking for, so I come to you guys in my hour of need (ok, not so melodramatic, but I'd appreciate some help )

Here's the site I'm working on www.savethebarrels.co.uk

Which has basically been put together from tutorials from here (thanks guys) and from experience and experimentation, the only real problem I'm having is that if the user is max'ing out their bandwidth, or is on a low bandwidth connection then when they click to go to one of the other sections, then sometimes the externally loaded txt file won't load in time, so the scrollbar goes squiffy, and also there is no text displayed until you click it again.

So my question is this: Is it possible to place into my preloader, something to make it wait for the external files to load, i'm not bothered about it contributing to the %age loaded, I just want to make sure it'll wait for them to load, so in pseudo code I'm looking for:

PHP Code:
this.loadVariables("news.txt?nocache=" + new Date().getTime);  
this.loadVariables("nands.txt?nocache=" + new Date().getTime);  
this.loadVariables("faq.txt?nocache=" + new Date().getTime);
if txt files loaded  
and if (_root.getBytesLoaded() == _root.getBytesTotalgetTime)  
then gotoandplay next scene 
any help would be much appreciated, ta