Load a director level into flash // is it possible?

Hi,
I am planning a complex system where eventually users will need to do immersion into 3rd dimension and also play lots of flash quizz.
I know director can load flash which makes it obvious choice for development but coding in lingo (a non POO language) maybe a little bit of regression looking the average age of the development team that iam building. So looking forward, i wonder if it's possible to make flash load director levels.
Thank you

Venian,
Director used to be considered flash's big sister: http://www.adobe.com/products/director/
Btw i just found out that you can use javascript within Director making it then perfect choice for my project.

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>I can find plenty of tutorials detailing how to load
variables from a
>defined
> asp page into Flash, but here's my dilemma...
>
> I have an asp page that is reading a URL with a unique
identifier in it
> (www.sampleURL.com?id=123456), and then turns the id
number from the URL
> into a
> variable. On the same page then, sits my swf where I
need to use LoadVars
> to
> pull in that ASP variable via Actionscript. If I don't
have a static asp
> page
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variable within the
> same
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