How to make a flash preloader for an already published flash movie???

Hi
Someone has sent me a flash movie for my website but there is no preloader. The flash movie is too large to load, how do I add a preloader to the already published flash movie? Does anyone know?
Thanks!!
Mike www.10amps.co.uk

You could create a preloader movie and within that you could load the external movie into it. If you look hard enuf I'm sure you will come up with a way to do that...

Thanx for the reply.
I did actually do that, and I imported the external movie to the library, but the movie contains buttons for user intereaction and when I imported it into my preloader movie, it converted the entire movie into keyframes, and also took the sound away.
Does anybody know any other way of placing an external flash movie into a preloader?
Thanks
Mike

How were you importing the external file?

i was importing by clicking File>Import to library, and then importing the .swf file in, and then dragging the file from the library to the stage, also tried timeline, but does the same thing (as mentioned before). i am using Flash MX.

Try using...

getURL("movie.swf", "_level0");

as an action... or

loadMovieNum("movie.swf", target_mc);

I think i'm doing something wrong, where is the "movie.swf" supposed to be, like should i import the movie.swf in or refer to a URL (i.e. replace movie.swf with http://www.domain.com/movie.swf)

If you import the file directly into flash it will just register as a keyframes, using the getURL function or loadMovieNum will load it into a virtual layer in the movie.
if the movie is in the same directory as the Preloader movie, use "movie.swf" (or whatever the movie is called), otherwise use the absolute URL...

i see wat u mean!
cheers matey! thanks a lot!
Laterz!
Mike

Thanks, i followed ur advice, and put the movie on the web, but the preloader doesn't actually show up, and the movie just opens without loading,..

Which movie is it?

erm... http://www.10amps.co.uk/toons/stephan.html
I have added a preloader at the beginning but it doesnt show.

Here ya go dude... hope this helps

wow! thanks a lot dude! cheers!