Flash + XML woes

Hey yall, I'm having an odd problem with flash and XML.
I have vector maps that are basically just text files with x,y,z and r,g,b values that describe 2 point lines.
The text files range in size from a few K to almost 2MB.

Now, on to the problem. I have a php script that loads a map file, and spits it out as an xml file. This basically doubles the size because of the damn xml tags.

I have a flash display that pulls in the xml data and draws the map inside an empty movie clip.
I have no problem viewing the maps on my computer, but the other guy that runs the site with me says that after he loads a few maps, the maps refuse to load.
Each map uses it's own instance of the viewer, so I'm not loading xml data on top of xml data. To view a new map, the user has to go to a new webpage.

When viewing a map, the status bar of the browser shows "transferring data from http://www.mapfiend.net... the entire time.
In my flash movie, I delete the xml object after it's loaded. Why would the browser still show transferring data ? It doesn't do this on pages without the flash viewer.

Disregard. The problem is with the labels on the maps, not the map data.
Anyone have a good tutorial for adding lots of text at arbitrary locations from an xml file with actionscript?

well ... i don't see the problem here. Either create textfields on the fly inside a movie clip or attach an already existing movieclip with a text inside.
The rest is just xml parsing.

well, that's what I'm doing, attaching an mc with a text field inside, but for some reason, some of the maps refuse to load. It's not a size thing, most of the ones that refuse to load are quite short. I thought there might be some unwanted "odd" characters getting in, but I don't see any.

What I'm really not getting is how a xml file with hundreds of entries will load, but one with fewer than 20 will not.

not sure, can you provide the code used to laod the xml?

I'll post it when I get home on the 30th.

ok, here's the code I'm using. The first part is the xml parser:
It takes the incoming xml data and places it in an array called mob_arr. This part works fine, I can trace it and the data actually gets into the array.

And this part actually draws the labels on the map:
This is the part that's causing problems on some maps. It simply won't draw anything at all, no lines or labels. On the maps that cause problems, if I leave out the label data, it draws the lines fine.

This is one of the xml files that causes problems, and I can't see a dang thing wrong with it:

hmmm ... strange, this part works ok here, don't really know what can be the problem. I tested it and it creates all the textfields and show them.
Do you use different fonts for different maps? (though i doubt it).
A thing that i have in mind is to delete and remove all the elements from the map before loading a new map, and then try again.
Btw, try to load this map that is not working as the first map and see if it works.

Well, it only loads one map at a time, and if you switch maps, it actually loads a different page, so the flash movie doesn't stay loaded when they switch maps. I wonder if it might be a problem with the line data xml, like maybe it's missing a single coordinate or something. I'll look into that.