Preloader Problems

I made a flash website. I noticed it was taking a while to load so I built a preloader for it. But when I tried to load the movie the preloader loads it but none of the buttons work. I tried it both ways I tried using buttons and movie clips for buttons and it still doesn't work. I imported my site to frame 5 and have it go to frame 5 when the preloader is done. I imported the swf file and it turned it into a mc. I'm not too sure how to get the preloader to load an external file instead of importing the file.

Please help!!!

Thanks,
Christina

I moved this thread to the flash forum, so that the other flashers can answer and find this post. Start with giving us more info, like what version of Flash, some code examples...etc.

I don't have the code on me now I was looking to see if I could find the tutorial online but I don't remember what website I got it from. I'll post the code when I get home tonight. Should I include anything else. I'm using flash MX.

I think you just got your frames wrong or something...

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/p..._component.htm
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/p...epreloader.htm

See if ether of these help.