flash (macromedia): I have made a image gallery of sorts, but I would like to be able to load
pictures from a website, much like html.... ex. <img scr =
"www.randomwebsite.com/pictures/01.jpg">

I would like to do this so I don't have to keep recreating the image gallery.

If that is possible, can I go one step further?
Send a .swf file a parameter, example, somehow let the flash program thats
about to run that the Variable named XBS is equal to "ice". so then I could
make the filepath img src = "www.randomwebsite.com/XBS/01.jpg"

Thanks for your time.

Have a look at the Loader component in the help file. That's the easiest way to load an external jpg. Of course there are many other ways.