Thanks again for gettin' back to me. The animations are short, but very rich graphically...lasting about 5 seconds at most, but over 300k in size. I know which one is loaded first, but there's no way the others will be loaded, but you are exactly right when you say "It sounds from your description like Movie 2 takes longer to load than Movie 1 takes to run."...I'm still working on it, and I've torn it all down and I'm starting fresh....man, this will be the death of me ....lol...

thanks,
Adam