Actually, I'm not doing the kiosk itself, I'm doing a flash presentation so that users can view an online demo of how the kiosk systems are integrated into waiting-rooms etc...so, it's a series of animations, and it's going to be available online for potential clients to see, so I don't want any buffering within the actual animation.

And oh, I know about the local vs. non-local thing, I completely wish this was a local thing.

I'll check out the greensock stuff...it seems like it should work, but we'll see if my noobie/hack mind can get around all the details...

But really, all I want to do is have a .swf that preloads external .swfs, so that other online users don't have to experience buffer time while going through the animation...thanks again.