Preloading external swf into movieclip

Here's another preloader question to add to all the rest of them.

I have an external swf file with it's own preloader that I am trying to load into a movieclip of another swf. The code for the preloader is as follows:



This code works fine when I play the restaurants.swf file by itself but when I try to load it into my control_panel it doesn't load at all.

The code to load the restaurants.swf file into the movieclip is as follows:




Without the preloader code everything works fine so I'm at a loss at what I need to do. Also, everything works great offline but when I upload it to the site I start having these problems.


Here is the link for the restaurants.swf by itself (preloader works fine):
http://www.sacritic.com/new/test2.html

Here is the link to the control panel (preloader doesn't work-file hangs)
http://www.sacritic.com/new/test.html

(You'll need to click on the critiques button and then the restaurants button)

My gues is that the _root is screwing me up so I tried _parent and that totally killed it.

Any ideas will be appreciated.

Thanks

Gene

Try this:

Thanks for the idea but that didn't work either. Taking out the if statement
kept it from loading all together. Hmmm...any more ideas out there?

Ok everyone I solved it. I took the _root out of the if statement so it
now looks like this:



Wow, I would think that this wouldn't work since I am not spelling
out a path but it works now so I ain't complaining.

On the flip side I also had to change the code on the status bar to
show _parent instead of _root (but it's a nested MC so that makes
sense).