Importing Text from a .txt

Hi everyone,
First post here, woo!
Let's say I have 5 pages (each about 4 frames long), and on
each page I need to pull in distinctively different text. On page
1, I need the Bible; page 2, Baghavad Gita; page 3, Yoga
Sutras...etc. Also, when I pull them in, I need to be able to play
with them. For example, I need to be able to hide each paragraph
when I click a button.
I first thought I'd need to import a text file into a text
box I pre-defined on the stage, but I can't seem to get that to
override the text of a MovieClip (come on, I'm a rookie!). Then I
thought I'd just ActionScript a text box into existence with code.
Only problem is, I need to animate it to disappear when I click a
button, and re-appear again (which I achieve with just having it
scroll off the stage - any suggestions on improving this situation
would also be much appreciated).
So, my question is: How do I pull in external text files (or
internal? - if I'm over-complicating things) onto the stage, so
that I can animate them to do things like disappear, or move, or
whatever really?
Am I making sense? All help would be GREATLY appreciated!
Cheers
Marc

To pull in your external data, I would advise using XML (make
sure to use CDATA with large text blocks). AS3 has a new beautiful
way to pull and parse XML Data. Just use a URLLoader/URLRequest to
get the XML data, then use the E4X Parser built in Flash to parse
the data, here's an example:
http://pixelfumes.blogspot.com/2007/05/easy-xml-parsing-using-as3-actionscript.html

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