An interesting Macromedia Technote for SharedObjects and LocalConnections. SharedObjects is MX’s way to save data on the local users machine (similar to Cookies) and LocalConnection allows different Flash movies to communicate locally without using Javascript/FS Commands. ::: [1] www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/local_so.htm and [2] www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/localconnection.htm