Question : Flash Preloading Images - reducing load time on website

I have a flash website that I am in the process of creating.

It is a photographer's portfolio website so it is heavy on images and even some videos.

The site isn't but about half way done and it already takes FOREVER to load. I think the swf is around 10-13mb.
I have preloader set up on the first two keyframes on the website.

I need tips on how to reduce the load time on this site. I would love to have it where it loaded the images on a page only when you clicked to go to the page so I'm not wasting their time loading things they aren't going to see.

I've tried two methods - one having the entire website on one timeline and the pages are different keyframes and two having each page it's own "scene" with a preloader for each scene. Neither seemed to work.

I need some tips and help on how on earth to reduce this so it doesn't take ten minutes to load the site. I'm not clear on how to preload each image itself so any direction would be great.

thanks in advance.

Answer : Flash Preloading Images - reducing load time on website

I take it these are full size and not thumbs. Have you tried breaking the swf into multiple swfs. I am thinking after say 10 images the next button loads another swf. So users would only have a slight wait at intervals which would not be so bad as a long wait at the beginning. Are the images saved as progressive jpg files?