yes, lose the popup to the forum. also, you are linking directly to the .swf file.. if i remember right, i heard there might be a problem with that? i'm not sure. your preloader did not work for me. I saw a white screen for about a minute and then all of a sudden 100% flashed on my screen and then the rest of the site. You do have some excessive animation going on so it does slow down the site quite a bit. I would also give credit to the open source fla's you used as i recognize some of them. preloading your pictures also didnt' seem to work. i saw 40% right away and it never changed.. i didnt' wait for the loading to finish but it did show 40% for quite awhile..