Loading Variables from HTML

[dexy]

I'm trying to have my movie tell the user what page they're on by means of an arrow appearing above the button they've just clicked using this actionscript:


stop ();
loadVariablesNum ("arrow", 0);
if (arrow eq "home") {
gotoAndStop ("home");
} else if (arrow eq "page2") {
gotoAndStop ("page2");
} else if (arrow eq "page3") {
gotoAndStop ("page3");
} else if (arrow eq "page4") {
gotoAndStop ("page4");
} else {
gotoAndStop ("broken");
}

[dexy]

...and the HTML page it sits in calls the movie like this:

<OBJECT SRC="movie.swf?arrow=home">
<EMBED SRC="movie.swf?arrow=home">

This has two problems: Firstly the movie always stops at the "broken" frame label, & secondly when tested on a Mac it tells me I need a plugin to view the movie. If the ?arrow=home part is taken out, the movie plays on both platforms but obviously doesn't
collect the variable.

Help much appreciated!!!

cheers