ActionScript 3.0 :: Flash Application Ignores Crossdomain.xml?

With a looming deadline for a big project, I've just wasted an entire evening trying to find out why my application won't properly load image content when the .swf is deployed to a web server.

Here's what I'm trying to do:

- load a jpeg image from a different domain than where my .swf's are hosted

- turn it into a Bitmap object to apply smoothing

Loading the jpeg itself is no problem, as long as I do this:

[AS]addChild(loader);[/AS]

As soon as I try to access loader.content, or loader.contentInfo.content to create a Bitmap, Flash simply aborts the script.So there you have it: a typical security sandbox violation (although no error is ever thrown). Solution: crossdomain.xml! Or that's what I thought.Now the image host has a crossdomain.xml in it's root, with *.rocketclowns.com as an entry. I'm testing my app from www.rocketclowns.com.Even if I try to force load the policy file:

[AS]Security.loadPolicyFile()[/AS]

Or, with LoaderContext:

[AS]// create a loader context that
// checks for policy files
var context:LoaderContext = new LoaderContext();
context.checkPolicyFile = true;
// use the context with your call to load
myLoader.load(request, context);[/AS]

...I still can't access my loader.content.