loadVariables HANGS....txt file too large???

Hi all,

I have this form that I'm developing for a client. He's putting it on his auctions so that people can link to other auctions. It is working now, but some people have trouble viewing it:

prototype example:

http://www.stanford.edu/~pme/auction.html

Here's what the client reports:

"The browser pops up a message stating that the
Flash movie script is taking to long. This is crashing Windows 98 machines...The text file I
have been creating has been about 7 kb large. That does not seem to be very
big. Is there a limit to how many variables or how much total size can be
used while loading variables?"

The way I have it set up is the flash movie keeps looping until the last loaded in variable (finished) is true. then it continues to parse the data fields.

This one's a mystery to me. thanks so much for your help.