ActionScript 3.0 :: SWF Won't Go To Frame When Online

I've been tinkering with flashvars for the past two days, and have finally gotten my simple variable ('marker') to pass from the html to the swf. I have one swf that is loaded into each page of my website, but at different frames depending on the page. The value of the variable is simply the frame label I want the swf to go to. here's my code:

Code:
var paramObj:Object=this.loaderInfo.parameters.marker;
var marker=String(paramObj);
var tf:TextField = new TextField();

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the text field was just a way for me to test that the vars were being passed, which they are. The strange thing now is that the movie won't go to the proper frames when I test the site from Dreamweaver. The index page works fine - I have the swf starting from the first frame of the movie, but when I try to get to the frames 'film_stop' for the films page or 'collective_stop' for the collective page - passing those through flashvars - the swf just goes to the first frame in the timeline with a stop() action, which I just find to be weird. As a test, I even wrote " marker='film_stop'; gotoAndPlay (marker) " at the end of the code and tested it in Flash - it went to the proper frame, but when I published the same movie and tried testing the site through Dreamweaver, it again went to the first frame with a stop() action.