Entertainer XD Mailing List / Email

I bought "The Entertainer" recently. It's up and running (mostly). I am a programmer, but not with Flash.
 
I have a question on the "Mailing List" and "email" stuff. I did the CHMOD 777 on the two files, same folder as the .swf and .html. But I see the PHP is passed blank variables ($name, $email & $message). And the counter is readin the file but not updating.
Can you point me to something I need to look at for this?
 

Most of the time this error occurs due to a setting (register_globals) in the PHP.INI turned off.  This can be resolved by placing the following code at the beginning of the PHP file:

<?php

$email = $_POST['email'];

$name = $_POST['name'];

$message = $_POST['message'];

$action = $_POST['action'];

*** snip ***

?>