Flash Components and XML Binding

Question

I just ran through the XML binding Bike Trails tutorial about
a hundred times. I can get that to work just fine. But when I try
to work with my XML file, it keeps falling apart. I just don't get
it! I've been working on it for 2 days and it's still not working
right.
For one, the bindings are not showing up right. I have 2
combo boxes and then a final one I'd like to use to list the
stores. Here's a link to basically what I'm trying to do:
http://www.thinkseed.com/test/stores.html
My bindings keep falling apart. I get null values all the
time for the second drop box that's supposed to house the States
(the one on the site is a fluke...I accidentally had the
<store> node on a separate line instead of nested in the
<state> node. No idea why that one sort of worked.)
Here's an example of the XML code:

Answer 1

The flashComponents are standard AS2 components, and you can look up their APIs in the Flash documentation.  Here is the button docs:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS2LCR/Flash_10.0/help.html?content=00001977.html#3654189
Looking at that, there is a getStyle() method, and I just tested it out:
put sprite(1).getStyle("borderStyle")
-- "inset"
put sprite(1).getStyle("fontFamily")
-- "_sans"
put sprite(1).getStyle("color")
-- 734012.0000
I'm not real sure what that means (probably the hex color converted to a float), but you can change the color like this:
sprite(1).setStyle("color","red")
And here is a page that lists all the styles that are defined:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS2LCR/Flash_10.0/help.html?content=00001973.html#3136306