dynamic flash vars from embed tag not loading soon enough?

in the following swf

http://photojojo.com/imageEditor/vinyls ... =480&h=360

I've made a cropper.
that cropper is supposed to have a live preview on the right of whats being cropped - which - isn't working.

Part of it depends on two variables...a width and height.
If I set those two variables manually - the live preview works.

If i try to get it, however, from a query string passed to the embed tag of the swf... the live preview dosen't work.

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Now I know my variables are in fact being loaded into my actionscript because in the bottom right text box i print them.

This leads me to believe that perhaps they're not being loaded quick enough ?

Another reason I believe its related to them not being loaded quick enough - is because when I refresh that page -- everything loads and then for just a split second I see the variables being populated into the textbox (ie.. i see it flash from "DEFAULT CONTENT" to "width: 480 height:360"

in other words, those variables are coming in too late...after most of the swf is loaded ...therefor breaking the portion of my cropper that depends on those variables.


Am I on the right track with these assumptions?
Does any one have a suggestion for a fix?

arghhh figured out what was going on...

wasn't that my variables weren't being loaded --- but they were being loaded as strings

so... a simple parseInt(variableName)

makes everything better.