Newby flash user-
I want to build 4 seperate pages that load sequentially on the main timeline (no additional scenes).The reason is because when a "next page" button is selected the next page comes into view smoothly using 'fade out' of the existing page, and correspondingly 'fade in' of the new page.
Ok, no problem there. However, one page is rather a large file size so I thought it would be prudent to have a little text preloader asking the viewer to wait a few seconds whilst the selected page loads.
For example - Suppose the existing page ends, and has a 'stop' action on frame 198, and the next selected page starts on frame 201 which contains a large graphic, can I have "ifFrameLoaded (201) { gotoAndPlay(200);} action script on frame 199 ?
In other words - can a preloader be in series with each page on a time line ?
Sorry for the long winded way of asking the question.,,regards to all.

As far as I know, the only way to solve this is to add a scene before your main scene and create a preloader in it. This will preload all of the pages on your site, and thus once past the preloader the user will have access to all pages without lag time.

Check out flashkit.com for a large variety of preloader tutorials.