I am loading in a SWF with a document class of PreloadPage, which extends AbstractPreloader. When I try to cast _loader.content as the super class, I get a coercion error.

TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert [EMAIL PROTECTED] to com.gaiaframework.pages.AbstractPreloader.

var _preloader:AbstractPreloader;
_preloader = AbstractPreloader(_loader.content);

public class PreloadPage extends AbstractPreloader implements IPreloader
{
public class AbstractPreloader extends AbstractBase implements IPreloader
{

Can somebody please explain why I can't cast a subclass as its parent class in this case? This doesn't make sense to me...

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Steven Sacks
Flash Maestro
Los Angeles, CA
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