Help "enhancing" dynamic text

Im am currently working on a flash website and have succeeded
in making a scrolling text area... the thing is the text is dynamic
and you can't change like one word into one specific font... i've
been also trying to link this certain word to a different frame in
the scrolling text area but i can't! also i want to make an image
appear when you "mouse over" a certain word in this dynamic text
area. Any help would be much appreciated thank you.

Hi kglad,
Thank you for the note. I have gone over the Actionscript and
can find no obvious flaw. Can you tell me how a property might be
assigned before the text is loaded? Could network traffic affect
this?
I did some tests during peak usage times.
The tests of the project seem to indicate that once the error
was encountered and the content reloaded (keeping the same session)
that the error would not reoccur. Closing the session and browser
and er-entering resulted in no error.
However, closing the session then deleting cookies and/or
temporary internet files then starting a new session caused the
problem to reoccur. I could delete just the cookies and the problem
would reoccur. I could delete just the temporary internet files and
the problem would reoccur.
Again, the error, when it does occur, seems to affect some
text fields more than others and never consistantly. Its a moving
target.
Thank you for your earlier clue.
Tim

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ta

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Hi, I was just wondering if anyone could help me out.
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Hmmm.
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http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/multiple_dynamictext.htm
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