Loading an External Variable

Hello all,
I am having a little difficulty loading an external variable
into my flash movie.
The principle of the movie is to load some XML data and
display expected data in loop. This all works fine and as it
should.
My problem starts when I remove the internal variable used
for testing and try and insert the same variable externally, as
this will be changing depending upon the teams displays. I have
tried adding in the variable like
<param name="flashVars" value="teamName=teamA" />
and
<param name="movie"
value="flash/plasma.swf?teamName=teamA" />
And then tried using a variety of methods in AS3 to display
the name. Just getting it to trace "teamA" would be all I need, but
it is having none of it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards
Tim

Thanks 7johnson,
I have tried that very method once already and unfortunetely
nothing seems to work when I do it. I must be doing something
wrong... I am quite new to AS3 and it is beating me into the
ground... :o)
On my HTML
<object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0"
width="1024" height="768" title="Flash Plasma Display">
<param name="movie" value="flash/plasma.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="flashVars" value="teamName=teamA" />
<embed src="flash/plasma.swf" flashVars="teamName=teamA"
quality="high" pluginspage="
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="1024"
height="768"></embed>
</object>
FLASH
var team = root.loaderInfo.parameters.teamName;
Does it look wrong to you.
Cheers for the speedy response.
Regards
Tim

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