looping in publish settings

[Oxymoron]

hello all.
I'm creating a flash page which is quite bulky, so I decided to create a 'preloader' which is a simple percentage bar.
That all works fine, but because it has to be in the same project to work (i.e. analyse when FrameNo is loaded) I find that when I load the page it keeps looping back to this preloader, when the animation I want on my main page has finished.
It is only one graphic on the main page I want to loop, however when I specify loop for that graphic in the properties box, then set publishing settings to NO LOOP, I simply get no loop.
How can I set the page to not loop, except the one graphic I want to loop?????
any and all comments welcome!!
thnx everyone!
JoE

 

[oldnewbie]

A link would be more helpful than your confusing question!
If what I can make of it is true, put your graphic in a movie clip and have that movie clip loop, but put a stop action on the last frame of your movie. Also uncheck the loop box under the Publish html settings.
That way your graphic element should loop, but the movie shouldn't!

Regards,

ldnewbie