I'm pretty sure you would need use xml to get information into flash. Thats what i'm trying out at the moment. Ultrashock have quite allot on info in there forums and a simple google searsh for xml blog flash probably get some tutorial sites on how to do this.
The following is a xml created by php from a forum mysql database.
http://rss.ultrashock.com/forums-details.php
Hope that help
PS. 2004 MX have xml connectors and all kinds of systems to get xml into flash. I have yet to use Flash player 7 as I need as many viewers as possbale without hassel of installing the latest version so I dont know too much about this.