Sound Object Problem

Hi All,
I'm working with sound object. I want to pause the sound. By
clicking on pause btn, I'm storing the sound position in a variable
e.g:
_root.soundPos = _root.mySound.position;
but when I click the play btn, sound is not playing, I have
written following code on play btn :-
_root.mySound.start(_root.soundPos,99999);
If I write following code, sound starts to play but not from
the given position, it starts from 0 .
_root.mySound.start(eval(_root.soundPos),99999);
Plz. help me and let me know where I'm doing wrong.
Thanks
Harmeet

you moved your embedding html's location or you move your
mp3's location.

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