How do I get flash to communicate with a database

Hi I would greatly appreciate some help here as I am getting overwhelmed by the variety of products out there. I have written a flash program using AS3 which allows the user to build a picture of a product using a variety of options displayed in checkboxes. Very simply these checkboxes either make a layer visible or invisible in my flash movie and certain choices may change the list of options. This information is currently being supplied by XML. Once the user has built his product, I would like to be able to save his choices in a SQL Server database and also be able to download his options again at a later date and view these choices at the manufacturing plant.
So far I have tried using asp.net to write to the database and have got the information to the asp.net program by using the querystring, however there may be up to 50 options which does make a querystring rather unwieldy. Also I cannot seem to send back information from the asp.net page to my actionscript.Can anyone tell me how to do this or give me an example? I am supposing that I use the response.write function in asp.net but what command in AS3?
I looked into the possibility of using a webservice but see that AS3 no longer supports this as all the functionality is in Flex. I have read about Flex but still do not understand whether  it could help me and how it can communicate with my flash program and pass the options in and out of it.
I also briefly looked at Flash remoting which did appear as though it was the answer but is even more expensive to buy than flash itself.
Can anyone give me suggestions on how to move forward with my problem

I haven't worked with ASP, so what I'm offering is based on using PHP.  For sending data to a database using AS3, you should be able to use the URLVariables class to pass the data to an ASP file.  The ASP file will maage getting the data into the database.  To get data out of the database, the most common method would be to treat the ASP file as a xml source, having it write xml formatted data to the Flash file.
You might want to Google "AS3 ASP SQL tutorial" and see if you get any results.  Otherwise, here's a link to a tutorial for a PHP/MySQL version that might at least give you an idea of the processing scenario...
Flash - PHP - MySQL
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=20

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