Error with links via external text file

This is driving me insane, because I actually had it working once and now I can’t do it.

I have a .txt file that contains:

 &solutionslink=/solutions/index.hml 

In my .fla, attached to my button I have the following:

 on (release)
 {
 getURL(solutionslink);
 } 

But when I hit the link I get //webserver/undefined instead of //webserver/solutions.html

I’ve done a trace and I get “/solutions/index.html”

I just don’t know what I’m doing wrong! Please help?