dont know if you saw this or not -
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53509
concerns tutorial:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/externaldata.htm
just a matter of a capitalization issue that works in MX but not MX2004. loadVars should be LoadVars. Should be a snap to fix … well, actually probably not so much since you’ll need to edit the fla as well :hangover: