Passing variables to loaded external movie

Ok, this problem has beaten me for the last 2 days. It seems
to be extremely simple, I am on main movie and I am using
MovieClipLoader class to load external movie callMe.swf into movie
holder called holder_MC, then from main using onLoadInit or
onLoadProgress listeners I can target dynamic text inside
callMe.swf as holder_MC.myTXT.text = "blablabla" or I can change
frames in callMe.swf by holder_MC.gotoAndStop(5). But HOW TO PASS
VARIABLE myVar to callMe.swf so it executes something there? Using
holder_MC.myVar DOESN'T WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for any help,
Zbynek

UPDATE... I copied the link to another page with my variables in the image attributes as I posted above. And it works using the values that are cached for those items. Is there any way to do this on the same page as my original link without my users having to change to a different page?

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