AS3 - External CSS and External text

I'm going nuts here. I have successfully loaded text from an
external file. I have successfully loaded styles from external CSS.
Trace appear to confirm that both have loaded. My Problem is that I
cannot get the styles to apply to the text.
I thought that perhaps it was a sequence issue and have tried
to make sure that the CSS loads before the HTML. I have also
attempted to apply the style by using a button event (but did not
include that code) just for testing but that did not work either. I
did apply the same CSS to text typed in Flash and that was styled
correctly - just to confirm that the CSS was valid.
Anyone see what my problem is? Thanks

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