missing first line of XML when read by Flash

[gonecat]

for some reason, my flash movie isn't reading the first line of XML. any help would be greatly appreciated

my xml looks like this:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xml>
<gallery path="images2"/>
<disk artist="none" title="none" label="CASABLANCA RECORDS" credit="none" image="CASAlogo.jpg"/>
<disk artist="none" title="none" label="STRUMMER2 RECORDINGS" credit="none" image="strummer2.jpg"/>
<disk artist="none" title="none" label="CARL WILSON FOUNDATION" credit="none" image="cwf.jpg"/>
<disk artist="none" title="none" label="CASABLANCA RECORDS" credit="none" image="CASAlogo.jpg"/>
<disk artist="none" title="none" label="STRUMMER RECORDINGS" credit="none" image="strummertype.jpg"/>
</xml>


my flash movie is reading it in like this:

// ignore trailing spaces and CR in XML nodes
XML.prototype.ignoreWhite = true;
Gallery = [];
listGallery = new LoadVars();
listGallery.load("listgalleries.txt");
artist = title=label=credit="";
ta._visible = tt._visible=tl._visible=tc._visible=imageFrame._visible=false;
next._visible = false;




thanks again