My loaded AS2 swf can not seem to load additional AS2 swf's using loadMovie()
or loadMovieNum().

I have a .mxml file with a mx:Image tag with a source attribute bound to a
String variable. I can set this variable to a valid AS2 swf path, and the swf
loads as expected.

However, this AS2 swf contains one or more loadMovie() statements to load
additional 'child' swf's into empty movieClips, which fails silently.

(I'm forced to load several legacy/AS2 projects, I'm trying to avoid migrating
these projects to AS3, also trying to avoid embedding the 'child' swf's into a
single AS2 swf).

I've tried both loadMovie and loadMovieNum, I've change the publish settings
to both Access Local Files and Access Network Files, I've tried replacing the
bound mx:Image tag with a mx:SWFLoader tag, none of these work. I even tried
toggling the Flex compiler setting -use-network.

All other functionality seems to be working in the loaded AS2 swf.

I've found many posts/articles regarding inter-communication between a Flex
AS3 swf and loaded AS2 swf's, but this isn't my problem. I don't need
communication, just functionality.

Thanks in advance for any insight!

OK, once again, walking away from a problem for 5 minutes has proven to be
invaluable. I started to think that maybe there was a known issue with
loadMovie(). Although I was trying to avoid touching the source code of these
AS2 swfs, I decided it would be worthwhile to test replacing the loadMovie()
statements with MovieClipLoader.loadClip().

It works! Although this means all the legacy AS2 files I need to load will
have to be revised, this is much less of a task than migrating to AS3 or
embedding the child swf's into single movie. I hope at least this will save
someone else the frustration of trying to do the same thing.