The images are just images. The flash is just flash. I'm not doing anything wrong. If it doesn't load right it's your problem.
No, and here's why:
Upon looking closer at what you're doing, 1.) you're passing parameterized Flash variables into the Flash movie for your menu. Great for reusability, right? No. On Flash Player 8 doing this sometimes breaks because of some bizarro memory addressing issue or something, the technical crap is beyond me. This is not why people are starting to use a client-side JavaScript to rewrite the DOM to add multiple instances of the same Flash object like you are doing, but
it helpsAlso, this breaks usability & search engine indexing. The same goes for the news headers. Is there any reason to make the headings Flash besides the font & drop effect?
2.) What I thought were images not loading were Flash elements, for the reasons written above.
3.) The heaviness I mentioned is a matter of taste. The lines are really thick, the page bgd clashes with the blue gradient header bgds, and everything feels too "big" even at 1200.
4.) I was just trying to give you a heads-up that something was broken. Doing some minor things differently on your end will make things work more smoothly. Sorry if I came off like a richard, but the fact is there's something wrong on
your end you may want to think about changing or tweaking for best results.