Swfobject.js and flash vars problem... HELP!

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Having a problem using variables with swfobject.js … what am I doing wrong? trying it two ways here:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
 <title>RisingStar</title>
 <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
 <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1">
 <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
 </head>
 <body bgcolor="#000000"  leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">
 
 <div id="flashcontent"><br><br><font color="#ffffff">This site requires Flash Player 7 or greater to function correctly.<br>Please download <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash" target="_blank"><font color="#ffffff"><u>HERE</u></font></a></font>
 </div>
 
 <script type="text/javascript">
    var so = new SWFObject("RisingStar.swf", "RisingStar", "450", "213", "8", "#000000");  
    so.write("flashcontent");
    so.addVariable("xmlFile", "http://147.26.119.171:8081/magnoliaPublic/main2007/rising-stars.xml");
    so.addParam("flashvars", "xmlFile=http://147.26.119.171:8081/magnoliaPublic/main2007/rising-stars.xml");
 </script>
 
 
 </script>
 
 </body>
 </html>

here’s my AS:


 _global.xmlFinishedLoading = false;
 
 my_xml = new XML();
 my_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
 my_xml.onLoad = function(sucess) {
        if (sucess) {
             trace ("XML loaded");
             _global.xmlStuff = new XML(this);
             //gotoAndPlay(2);
         } else {
             _root.debug.text = "couldn't load XML file";
         }
 };
 
 //loading xml from html variable
 _global.baseURL = "";
 my_xml.load(_root.xmlFile);