AS3.0 External Interface: Pass variables to flash using javascript

Hello all,
I am looking for a simple and straightfoward example of how I can pass the value of a variable into flash using javascript.
Specifically, I'd like to use javascript to pass the filename of an external video file that I would like to load into my flash movie.
I'd also like to call a function in the SWF that plays the movie once the filename as been passed to the flash movie.
External Inferface looks like the way to go.
I've found a few decent AS2.0 examples, but converting them to AS3.0 has proven difficult and many of the examples are much too complex for what I am trying to do.
If you have any code samples or tutorials showing the HTML/Javascript and the associated actionscript I'd really appreciate it!
Thanks!
Tim

if you create a swf (eiTest.swf) and html:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>eiTest</title>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
        <script language="JavaScript">
         function thisMovie(movieName) {
         if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1) {
             return window[movieName];
         } else {
             return document[movieName];
     function f1(value) {
         thisMovie("eiTest").jsF(value);
</script>
    </head>
         <body onload="f1('yourfilename.ext');">
     <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
             id="eiTest" width="550" height="400"
             codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab">
         <param name="movie" value="eiTest.swf" />
         <param name="quality" value="high" />
         <param name="bgcolor" value="#869ca7" />
         <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
         <embed src="eiTest.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#869ca7"
             width="550" height="400" name="eiTest" align="middle"
             play="true" loop="false" quality="high" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
             type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
             pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
         </embed>
     </object>
    </body>
</html>
you can use:
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
ExternalInterface.addCallback("jsF", asF);
function asF(fileS:String):void{
trace(fileS);

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colorMCArray[colnum].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, btnrout);
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Was this the "e" in the code below you were pertaining to as the culprit? "e" is not a keyword. It's just the shortcut for the word "event" for the variable name of type Event which is the Event object that triggered the call of function loaderInfoSh. In your code you assigned e = myQueryString.e which should have given you a type mismatch error.
function loaderInfoSh(e:Event):void{
var myQueryStrings=this.loaderInfo.parameters;
a = myQueryStrings.a;
b = myQueryStrings.b;
c = myQueryStrings.c;
d = myQueryStrings.d;
e = myQueryStrings.e;
addTheResults(a,1);
addTheResults(b,2);
addTheResults(c,3);
addTheResults(d,4);
addTheResults(e,5);
this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loaderInfoSh);

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