Using variables to go to a section of a swf

Hi,
I have been working on a project that I finally realized
could have been, and will be, easier if I used variables within my
AS. So I came home this evening and started working on my idea and
after several hours of it not working, working part way, and
googling like mad I decided to try you all. I hope you can help.
The site I'm working on I've actually split up into multiple
swfs for easier maintenance and I'm using one container swf to load
everything in. The problem I have is that there is a "past" section
where the user can select a year and view everything about the
company that happened in that year (containing text, links to
photos, sometimes video, etc.).
So the past section is loaded into level 1 and when the user
clicks on a year I'm creating a variable called year given the
value of that year (2007, 1984, etc). The year button also unloads
the past section swf and loads another swf in level 1. I have some
actionscript at the beginning of that swf that says
if (year=2007) {
gotoAndPlay("2007");
} else if (year=2006) {
gotoAndPlay("2006");
For each year I'll have some links, more buttons, and/or
video come in and there's also a button to go back to the past
section. One of my problems is that it always goes to the frame
labelled "2007". I did get it to go to 2006 once, but I was using
two if statements instead of the if and else if. The second problem
is that when the user clicks back to the past section I need to
empty out the variable so that they can choose another year and
pass that variable.
Can anyone offer any advice, suggestions or examples?
Thanks!
phej

I have been having a similar problem, and being quite new to
Flash, I'm at a loss on how to fix it. My issue is with a template
I purchased. This template has the main content pages nested a
couple layers deep. I need to be able to send people to a specific
URL that I'm hoping to get to load the movie and bring up the one
specific clip and not the main start.
I had tried using a dynamic text field to check if the
variables I was passing in through the URL were making it in (with
the correct code placed in the embed and object tags). I gave the
var box of the dynamic text the name of the variable I was passing
in: showPage.
This is what was displayed in the text box instead:
_level0.pages001.pages.instance115.showPage
Can I glean any information as to how to get this one clip to
be bookmarked? I have tried by passing in variables and also by
setting a Named Anchor in the key frame that loads this clip. That
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