PHP Mail Form checkbox problems!!

[The Waiter]

Hello again -

I have been fooling around with a php form with checkbox options all day. :(
My problem is with a source code I downloaded.
When I test the source code it's fine - it works.
When I adapt the same actionscript variable, Flash immediately informs me of a syntax error. Odd.
Flash hates /: on my version but is cool with the very same /: on the downloaded source file!!
Where am I going wrong?

The ascript is: /:myvariable = "";
This sits on frame 1.

Then I have several buttons which act as checkboxes - they have the following script:

on (release) {
/:myvariable = "variable";
gotoAndStop(2);
}

[CyanBlue]

Howdy and Welcome... :)

If you are publishing your Flash movie for Flash Player 8 or AS2, you will see that error message... You have to use _root instead...
_root.myvariable = "variable";