Is loading a as2 swf into my as3 flash site the problem here?

My question is listed on another board here, but I am too inexperienced to understand how to fix my issue:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/5045059#5045059

I went on flashkit.com and a member there immediately said that it "sounds like the problem is using the AS2 swf loaded into the AS3 swf."

If it is... this mean I will have to convert everything in the AS2 .swf (including the XML retrieval script) to AS3. I may need some help with that if that is the problem.

So will AS2 swfs cause XML communication and retrieval issues if loaded with a loader script into an AS3 file?

Everything works (the buttons are clickable and when you click on a square in the "thumbnails" scroller it displays the correct photo title and captions), except I just cannot see the actual photos in my XML gallery. I am truly clueless as to why this happens and I've searched for days straight and tried many things...

You'll find all the details of my problem in the above link.

Thanks!