sendAndLoad (can send but not load...)

[TheLostGuru]

Ok, well I have spent the last 45 minutes reading old threads about sendAndLoad, but cannot seem to figure it out. I am doing it twice. The first time, I don't really want to sent anything, but only receive a couple variables which I am pullin from a database. The second time, I only send variables and do not receive any. The second time works just fine. Here is the AS code and the PHP code that I use to try and receive variables.

function receiveVariables () {
	var_text.text = "loading";
	varsIn.onLoad = function (success) {
		if(success) {
			background.gotoAndStop(this.color);
			if(!this.owner) {
				save._visible = false;
			}
			var_text.text = this.color;
		}
	}
	varsOut.sendAndLoad("../sendColor.php", varsIn, "POST");
}

mysql_connect($_server,$_user,$_password);
@mysql_select_db($_database) or die( "Unable to select database");
//color will actually retrieve $_frame, but to simplify things I changed it to 1
echo "color=1";
mysql_close(); 

I appreciate any help. This is really getting to me.