Actionscript 3 TextField renders excessive line breaks

Hi all,
I was working on a project for musicnation.com, their EPK. I had to render text in a textfield that was coming from an XML feed, text that is entered by users. It can be filled with different types of line feeds, notable the:
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\r = mac (prior to macos being based on freebsd [...]

Passing parameters to a Flash 9 ActionScript 3 SWF file

Hi everyone, I found this blog entry which shed light on how to pass variables to your SWF this way :
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Here is some usefull function you can use. Put it in your Document Class. For those who don't know what that is, just put it on the stage on Frame 1 then.
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