Accessing FLVPlayback methods from a skin

I’m sure there’s a way to do this (I think I’m just missing what the proper syntax is):

Is it possible to access methods and properties of an FLVPlayback instance from a custom skin? I have modified one of the prebuilt skin .fla’s that come with CS3, but I don’t know how to access information from the playback component that calls it.

Example: I have a couple of text boxes in the skin .fla - one shows current playback time and the other shows total playback time. They work great when all of my actionscript is in the main fla (the one that contains the flvplayback component), but can I include code in the skin that does the same? Seems like a better place for it, since I’d be able to then reuse this skin for other projects.

Thx.