For small amounts of data, you're best-off just going with automaticoo's solution by using SharedObjects.. they take minimal time to set up and are an efficient way of storing small amounts of data.
You could use a cookie(sharedObject) for this purpuse. See http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/SharedObject.html.
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