Just as a heads-up, ActionScript 3.0 will be coming out relatively soon. For those of you who aren't aware, XML becomes INSANELY easy to handle with AS3.0 - much like handlers available in pretty much every other language out there. They gave some demos of handling at Flash in the Can 2006 and it looks like it's finally going to be at the point where it makes sense to use XML in Flash. Yay!