Okay, so I've been using the standard "Click anywhere to play" preloader for a while now, and it hasn't really bugged out on me until now. Whenever I test my animation normally, the preloader works great - it loads and plays the movie only when I click. However, when I go to "Simulate Download" to test how it'd run on lower bandwidth, the movie skips the preloader and begins to play automatically, even if the animation hasn't fully loaded. I exported the .swf to see if this was just a problem with the project or something, but it happens in the .swf as well.

I'm pretty new to Actionscript so I've been relying heavily on copy/pasting codes (with some minor adjustments), but I don't think I've screwed around with the script enough to make the preloader dysfunctional. I have no idea if this is just a problem with the script interacting with the "Simulate Download" command, although in the past it's worked fine. I just worry that the animation will play before the entire thing is loaded and become laggy and unwatchable on older computers.

The script is below:

Just get the original code again and try that. If that doesn't work, I don't know what to tell you.