Newbie Flash/actionScript3 question

hi All,
Apologies now as I am new to Flash, I have 'inherited' some flash files to incorporate into my java based web application.
The first .swf file that I am using needs to use an xml file. I can get the .swf file to open with the data from the XML file if they are in the same directory of my webapp. The previous programmer has saved the xml file to disk, copied it over into the directory where the html files are in and then it all works. I don't want to save the xml file to disk, I would rather create the data for the xml file and send it as a parameter to the .swf file. I was thinking about doing this with FlashVars.
I'll get to my problem now :-) FlashVars seem to be in name value pairs. I'm not sure what the parameter name of the XML file is in the .swf file.
<param name="FlashVars" value="seq_list=images/seq_list.xml"/>     
I have the source .fla file and I downloaded a demo copy of CS4 Flash professional and opened it up but I can't seem to find the actionScript. Flash files are written in actionScript right?
But even if I could find the actionScript, I have an awful feeling that the .swf file simply looks for the seq_list.xml file in the current working directory, which is really not what I went. And as I can't find the actionScript I can't change the code.
Anyway, sorry for the convoluted mail. As I said I am out of my depth big style with Flash and I would appreciate any comments (and it would help get my boss off my back too :-)
Sandy

You might find the actionscript in separate .as files.  Beyond that, in a more basic sense, if you are not familiar with how to find actionscript in the timeline of an AS3 file, you want to find keyframes in the timeline that have lower case "a"'s in them.  If you open the Actions window and select such a frame, the actionscript will appear in the window.

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