Alignment problems with external txt

wow i havent been here in forever, and yet now i come back to you, on my hands and knees groveling, help me help me… ha

ok so heres my problem, i’m reading in an external .txt filled with news items written in simple html. I use split to break each item up and display each by an back and forward arrow to view each item. the first time the items are shown they are aligned the way they should be, but when you arrow back to one the allignment is all wonky. I’ve never run across this before. I’m hoping its some small code i’ve overlooked, but would this problem pressist if I were using say xml instead of txt. and furthermore, if i used xml, would my html formatting still work? My zip has the .fla and the external file.

thanks