Dynamic Skinning in Flash

Hello, I have a question. I am a designer by trade, but
recently I have been toying more and more with code as a creative
medium. This is my first attept to play with an API, and this is
basically what I'd like to accomplish:
I need to load the RSS feed into Flash, and then isolate the
hex values and apply them to cretain objects in the flash movie.
Basically dynamically "skin" the page with kuler themes, if that
makes sense. I'm using AS2 and Flash CS3.
I've been scouring the internet for examples but I havn't
been able to find anything specific to my needs. I need to know how
to load the RSS, and how to extract certain data I need (theme
name, hex values, etc.) and finally how to apply them to objects,
to color buttons, header background, etc. I'm not asking for anyone
to write the code for me but any examples or point-me-in-the-right
direction type advice would be hugely appreciated. I'm new to this
and I have the concept all layed out in my head, I just need to
know the syntax to start experimenting.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Chris

I have made a very simple way to use the kuler API but it
requires as3. Is there a reason for not using a newer version of
action script??
Any ways the klib-as3 framework can be found at
http://code.google.com/p/klib-as3/
if you have any questions, feel free to ask and I see what I
can do.
heres a example of my framework

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