ActionScript 2.0 :: Flash Gallery Of Buttons

the website I'm working on is my own website (we're photographers) (I can't link it as I don't have 50 posts here, so, google "Anna and Spencer" and it'll come up) . Specifcally, the portfolio section - annaandspencer.com > skip > portfolio.I've created a flash gallery of images embedded within buttons of varying sizes. I wanted the functionality of the image being 'pushed' in along with the button when clicked on.Well, this seems to have gotten me in some trouble. I can find no way to have the images load one at a time vs. all at once. As it is, it can overload a computer's buffer. It does for some computers, it doesn't for others. It definitely does in most macs (safari). So, they will always see the first gallery page and it will load correctly. However, when they click onto the second (or third) it seems like the images are not loading. When the images don't load immediately, you can click on one of the blank buttons and see even the larger image (it opens another browser) isn't loading either. After about 21 seconds, everything begins to load again. Then, for the next few pages, everything will load - and then a hiccup again, another pause of nothing loading for about 21 seconds - and then everything loads fine again.My original thought was to have it so that each image loads after the previous. As in img_1 loads, then img_2, then img_3. However, they are all seperate empty movies within the seperate thumbnails - I just can't get it to work.[code]

It does return the correct numbers/percentage on the dynamic test text I made on the parent frame containing all of the buttons (and updates from 0 to 100 as the image loads). However, I now can't pass -any- variables. The counter works, but I can't have anything outside of the onEnterFrame function recognize this. When I even try to read the value of the dynamic text that was changed, it only gives back the initial name instead of the current value of 100.I've tried everything I can think of (and find online). I'm out of ideas now. I've tried creating a variable outside of the onEnterFrame and referencing it within it, or setting it equal to percentage. Notta. It returns 0 every time. I have tried _root variables. I have tried _global variables. Nothing. Everytime, it returns whatever I first declared the global/root/whatever variable equal to when I first initizialized it (usually 0). I just need some way to be able to tell img1 (which is really main portfolio > button1 > img1) is loaded so it can then load img 2, and img 2 for img3, and so on.