It's been a while, but Adobe's announcement of Flash Platform Services for Distribution (which we'll shorten to AFPSD for the duration) begs for the not-quite-famous "fake FAQ" treatment, where your humble host asks made-up questions of, well, himself in an attempt to make further sense of the official AFPSD press release. With that as the setup, let's get to those "frequently asked questions."

One might naturally assume that a series of articles about building a Flash quiz engine may actually impart some knowledge about, oh, say, Flash. With that in mind, in this installment we're going to rectify the absence of any Flash in part one by firing up Flash and writing some ActionScript 3, with the exciting goal of loading the XML document we produced last time. Without further ado, let's dive right in.