How do I tell my flash movie which frames to display depending on the page?

Hi,
I'm creating a php website with a flash movie that
incorporates the navigation. The movie shows an image for each
section and this image doubles as the navigation. The website uses
the same php template throughout the site for each page.
Here's the thing: I would like each page within the site to
display the rollover / active state of the section that the page is
in, rather than the movie playing fully each time the visitors
visits a different page.
The .fla file and .swf can be viewed here:
http://preview.hosts.co.uk/~swinsidelodge-hotel.co.uk/templates/swinside/img/header.fla
http://preview.hosts.co.uk/~swinsidelodge-hotel.co.uk/templates/swinside/img/header.swf
So when a visitor is on a page in the hotel section, I want
the flash movie to play frames 201 to 205 and when in the booking
section frames 221 to 225 rather than the whole movie.
Is there any way of doing this?
Thanks,
Konrad

Thanks Gorka,
I looked it up and found this useful summary:
http://probertson.com/articles/2006/12/14/deep-linking-flash-application-states/
However, I'm now trying to figure out how write the flahs
vars so it can see what section / folder the page is in so that the
swf knows to play the same frames for both
swinsidelodge-hotel.co.uk/pages/hotel/awards.php and
swinsidelodge-hotel.co.uk/pages/hotel/guest-comments.php. So
basically it doesn't look at the last bit of the url but the first
bit... I would like the flash vars to be dynamic so that when the
client adds a new subpage in one of the sections the swf will still
know which frames to play.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Konrad

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