Urgent help with variables needed!

programming flash
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Hi. I’ve made a form to book places on training courses - all seemed to be working fine - but have now found a problem.

When you choose a course from a combobox, it populates another combobox with the relevant dates. When you choose a date it puts the relevant time and venue information in a dynamic text field. The courses, dates and time/venue info all come from an external text file (see attached). Problem is that for 9 of the dates it displays the wrong time/venue - and i can’t for the life of me figure out why. I thought it would just be a typo in the text file , but can’t see anything wrong there. it just seems to be calling the wrong variable for no reason - ie. instead of calling the variable c2t2 it’s calling c11t2.

here’s the code from my fla (i’m using flash 8)

stop();

// EXTERNAL VAR
var loadCourses:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
loadCourses.onLoad = function() {
//loads courses, dates and times
   var totalcourses=(parseInt(loadCourses.totalcourses))+1; 
   courses = new Array(totalcourses);
   totaldatesForCourse = new Array(totalcourses);
   dates = new Array(totalcourses);
     times = new Array(totalcourses);
   for (var i:Number = 0; i<totalcourses; ++i){
      courses* = this["c"+i];
      totaldatesForCourse* = parseInt(this["totaldates"+i])+1;
      dates* = new Array(totaldatesForCourse*);
	  times* = new Array(totaldatesForCourse*);
      for (var j:Number = 0; j<totaldatesForCourse*; ++j){
           dates*[j] = this["c"+i+"d"+j]
		   times*[j] = this["c"+i+"t"+j]
		  
	}
 title_cb.dataProvider = courses;
  }

//listener for titles dropdown
	var myListener:Object = new Object();
	title_cb.addEventListener("change", myListener);
	myListener.change = function() {
		for (var i:Number = 0; i<courses.length; ++i) {
			if (title_cb.selectedItem == courses*) {
				date_cb.dataProvider = dates*;
				clearThings();
			if(title_cb.selectedItem == courses[0]) {
		date_cb.enabled = false;
			}
		}
	}};
// listener for dates drop down
	var myListener:Object = new Object();
	date_cb.addEventListener("change", myListener);
	myListener.change = function() {
		for (var i:Number = 0; i<courses.length; ++i) {
			for (var j:Number = 0; j<50; ++j) {
				if (date_cb.selectedItem == dates*[j]) {
					time = times*[j]
				if(date_cb.selectedItem == dates*[0])  
				time = ""
			}}
		}
	};

};
loadCourses.load("etdtest.txt");

// things that need to happen when a course is chosen
clearThings = function() {
	date_cb.enabled = true;
	time = ""
}

this.next2_btn.onRelease = function(){
;
	checkThis();
if(time == ''){	
	error2 = "Please choose a course or programme and check all the required fields are completed"
} else {
	details2 = "Course title: " + title_cb.value +newline + "Date: " + date_cb.value +newline + time
	trace(details2)
	
	error2 = ""
}}

Can anyone out there help??

and please don’t tell me to use xml instead - i don’t know how and don’t have time to learn right now.