[thelist] Hope this question is appropriate

[ben morrison]

I want to change the color of a button on a page by reading in a 
database
entry, and also have the button call a particular URL using it's 
instance
name as part of the URL

use this._name to append the instance name to the string:

on(release){
  loadVariables 
("http://mbliving.com/WP/flash.cfm?lotnumber="+this._name)
}

Im not sure how you are calling/storing yesno, but you could use a 
simple if statement:

buttonColor = new Color(_root.yourButton)
if(yesnovar=="yes"){
	buttonColor.setRGB(0xff0000)
}

ben