Easy way to scan file directory?

I'd like to be able to dynamically scan my local file
directory in order to offer various choices to a user based on the
existence of files.
Is there any way to do this? If it can only be done in a
Projector or locally hosted .SWF that is fine.

The site has been around for years, and has done ok on a few search terms, but on others it is doing very poorly... and I believe that these changes will only improve things. As currently the descriptions arent very good.
thank you for your help btw!

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:48:11 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: I am trying to convert a .fla file to an .flv file, is there an easy way to achieve this.
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DAReese13 wrote:
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DAReese13 wrote:
I'm trying to find an easy way to import my MP3 collection into iTunes without moving, copying or changing it.
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