Loading an AS2 Swf into an AS3 project

I have a need to be able to load legacy AS2 SWF's into a new
AS3 project. I know that this is not readily possible, because you
can only communicate between the two via the LocalConnection class.
So, what I have done is to create an AS2 proxy SWF. This SWF will
handle the loading of all legacy SWF's and act as a middleman to
pass the function calls between the pre-compiled SWF and the new
SWF using the LocalConnection class. The new SWF also needs to be
able to load AS3 SWF's, though.
Because of this, I have the need to detect the AS version of
the loaded SWF. If 1 or 2, then change the source to the
AS2Proxy.swf, if 3 then simply load it.
I have written the following code. My problem comes in when
the init event fires. Regardless of the compiled version of the
loaded SWF, it always traces 3 as the AS version.

Alright, I solved this problem, only to come up with many
more.
To solve this problem, I needed to point to the loaderInfo
object of the UILoader's content. So:
simulation.content.loaderInfo.actionScriptVersion.
Now the proxy loads correctly, but I start getting errors
immediately. Let me paste some code to show the next steps:
First off. I immediately receive a StatusEvent error, though
the path gets sent into the proxy and loads correctly.
Next, when the complete event fires in the AS2 SWF - it sends
a completion back up to let the AS3 SWF know that it finished (and
any handling that needs to happen at that point.) I receive the
following error:
Error #2044: Unhandled AsyncErrorEvent:. text=Error #2095:
flash.net.LocalConnection was unable to invoke callback loadSwf.
error=ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property loadSwf not found on
com.applied.flash.events.AS2Connect and there is no default
value.

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Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 10:25:09 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: load AS2 swf into AS3 swf problem
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