Problem reading external HTML format from text file

I have a text file containing html formatted text which I try to get into a textfield.
All works fine locally and even on my localhost test server, but when uploading to the real server - I get a blank.
Anyone have any ideas? THANKS
The text file :
&t2=<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2">Some text here</TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2">One more line</TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2">And more text here</TEXTFORMAT>
and the AS code in the movie:
viewData.onPress = function() {
//get text
loadText()
var tz
function loadText() {
var my_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
my_lv.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
if (success) {
//trace(this.toString())
mytext.htmlText= this.t2;
} else {
//trace("Error loading/parsing LoadVars.");
my_lv.load("myfile.txt");

Thanks kglad, I did it and it made me find the real problem:
The text file is generated by PHP script that gets an html formated text from flash (it is an online editing part of an application):
the AS code to call the php:
var send_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
send_lv.t1 = "&t2="+editor.t1.htmlText+"&";
send_lv.sendAndLoad("write.php", res_lv, "POST");
the PHP:
<?php
$mydata = $_POST["t1"];
$myFile = "recipe.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $mydata);
fclose($fh);
print "&done=done";
?>
From some reason the online server adds \ before any " , but WAMP doesn't.
here is the text generated on localhost (WAMP)
&t2=<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2">local text</TEXTFORMAT>&
online server:
&t2=<TEXTFORMAT LEADING=\"2\">online text</TEXTFORMAT>&
I know its not a Flash problem now, but do you have any idea?
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