Loading External Text and CSS Displays Quirks

Using the ideas presented in the kirupa.com FlashMX 2004 tutorial entitled “Applying CSS to Externally Loaded Text”, I have created a banner ad that pulls the text data from a file.

Sometimes this banner ad will load and will show the unformatted text, including the span tags that are being used to wrap the inline class styles around the text.

Further, I have modified this script to not be random, but to always show the same text.

Has anyone noted this quirk?