"Nice.  Thanks everyone for taking a stab at this.  I guess we can consider this cased closed."

"Alright!  Thanks David.  It works. I had to move the data.txt file up to the root folder of my published Articulate project.  I was loo..."

"Hey David, thanks for the code...problem is, now the rest of my code doesn't work so hot.  I'm trying to get a progress bar to move up un..."

"I'm thinking it is a root level issue as well.  I tried loading the variable into level 44.  Didn't work.  I did follow that link earlier..."

"Tried that.  Didn't work."

"Brian, tried both "/data.txt" and "../data.txt" to no avail.  Hopefully your expert has some ideas."

"Tried putting the .txt file in same folder as the player.html.  No love.  I'll try messing with the path after lunch.  Thanks, guys."

"Yes, Sir."

"Hi Brian, thanks for the response.  Maybe you can shed some light on how I can correctly name the path.  In my Actionscript I have this -..."

"Not sure if this is possible but I thought that I would ask the people that probably know a lot more about Articulate than myself. ..."