Load variables and the such.

I was reading the flash articles here, they helped me alot. I have a question about sending variables from php to flash.
For sending something to flash from php i use something like this
echo '_root.main.news =' . " <b>What I want to say</b>";
The thing i'm stuck on is sending multiple things to flash.
echo '_root.main.news =' . " <b>What I want to say</b>";
echo '_root.main.otherthing =' . " <b>2nd thing I want to say</b>";
That doesnt seem to work.
How would i set something like that up?
I also have another question. It doesnt seem to work when i load variables from 2 different php files. For example:
loadVariablesNum("vars.php?RND="+random(999999), 0);
loadVariablesNum("othervars.php?RND="+random(999999), 0);
But it does work with one php file. I'm forced store everything in one php file, which is ok, but I would rather have multiple files. Well, i think thats it. Hopefully you can help me out.
-John

you need to make php print the values out like this

var1=value1&var2=value2&....

something like that, thats the only way flash can read the vars

So something similar to:
echo '_root.main.news =' . " <b>What I want to say</b>"&'_root.main.otherthing =' . " <b>2nd thing I want to say</b>";
right?

that should work

Thanks Ben, I'll test it once my ftp program starts working again.