Hi thanks again. Well it still didn't work, but I'm wondering if you think it's the actual cards themselves that aren't picking up the text.

I did this part already

loadVariablesNum ("http://www.belitawilliamart.com/Ecards/dBText/"+EcardText+".txt", 0);

but there are 4 dynamic text fileds in the flash. each text field should have had an instance name but they never came with one. they don't even have action script in them. how are variables supposed to load onto dynamic text fields which never had any instructions or names on them in the first place?

could that be it?