So we have two issues here primarily.

The first one is that my variables sent to my php scripts seem to contain the text formatting data (in really poor HTML). Is there a way to remove this?

The second is that my FLA as of yesterday will not publish. It pops up a message claiming that there is not enough memory. I watched the memory usage while it published and found there to be 600 MiB of free RAM and that is Physical RAM. I also have allowed an additional 3 GiB of Virtual RAM to be employed. So I doubt this is really the case.

Anyone have any ideas about either of these?

Just ask if you need me to post the flash document.