I have the code to the point where it creates the textfield, imports the text,
and it's scrollable. The problem is, that while the text does format to white,
it won't format the font or the size. I can't figure out what's wrong. Any
ideas?

function makeDynamicTextField() {
this.createTextField("content", 1, textfieldx, textfieldy, textfieldwidth,
textfieldheight);
content.type = "dynamic";
content.multiline = true;
content.html = true;
content.wordWrap = true;
content.selectable = false;
content.scroll = true;
scrollbar.setScrollTarget(content);
loadVarsText = new loadVars();

loadVarsText.load("http://www.geocities.com/jon_bollinger/"+wanted_section+".ht
ml");
loadVarsText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
loading._alpha = 0;
scrollbar._alpha = 100;
content.html = true;
content.htmlText = this.content;
content.font = "Eurostile";
content.size = 10;
content.textColor = "0xFFFFFF";
section = sectiontext;
}
};
}

in - function makeDynamicTextField() {..you need .. content.embedFonts = true;
... };

make a TextFormat -
format1 = new TextFormat;
format1.size = 10;
format1.color = 0xFFFFFF;
format1.font = "Eurostile"; // Linkage Identifier

in the onLoad, set the field
content.setNewTextFormat(format1);

hth

open the Library. use the Options, select New Font.
choose and name a font, press OK.
select your named font, right-click for Linkage..
set a Linkage Identifier and Export for Actionscript.
with an ID of "Eurostile" your code will work,

hth