Passing variables in embed code

programming flash
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Hi all,
what I need to do is have a flash movie jump to a set label in timeline according to which named variable I have defined in the embed HTML code.

So, let’s say I have a movie with two labeled frames (“shape1” and “shape2”) and when the variable **pagevar **equals “one”, the movie jumps to “shape1” while when the variable **pagevar **equals “two”, the movie jumps to “shape2”. If the variable is undefined or equals anything else, the movie simply stops. Here’s the code in frame one:

if (pagevar == "one") {
    gotoAndStop("shape1");
} else if (pagevar == "two") {
    gotoAndStop("shape2");
} else {
    stop();
}

now, when I directly call the .swf appending ?pagevar=one to the URL

file:///C:/vartest/vartest.swf?pagevar=one

then the movie responds fine.

But when I try to add this variable inside the embed tag in an HTML file

<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" CODEBASE=".../swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="200" ID="vartest" ALIGN="middle">
    <PARAM NAME="allowScriptAccess" VALUE="sameDomain" />
    <PARAM NAME="allowFullScreen" VALUE="false" />
    <PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="vartest.swf?pagevar=two" /><PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="autohigh" /><PARAM NAME="wmode" VALUE="opaque" /><PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="#ffffff" /><EMBED SRC="vartest.swf?pagevar=two" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="200" ALIGN="middle" QUALITY="autohigh" WMODE="opaque" BGCOLOR="#ffffff" NAME="vartest" ALLOWSCRIPTACCESS="sameDomain" ALLOWFULLSCREEN="false" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
    </OBJECT>

it does not work and stays at first frame. What am I doing wrong??? I have attached test fla+swf+html (Flash CS4)