loading external image files and preloading them.

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I fairly new to flash 8 actionscript. I've searched other posts for the same problem that I'm facing.

I want when clicking on a button that it loads a jpg file and that shows the precentage of load of that same file. I also want to be able to close that image so that I can return to the main site and choose from the thumbnails another image and do the same thing to that image etc etc etc.

Thank you for the attention.