[flexcoders] Photoviewer example--why no access to class variables?

Howdy all... I'm hoping someone can clear up a little confusion of mine: In the photoviewer example that comes with Flex 2, why can you only get to the data of the instatiated PhotoService class via mx tags, but when you try to access any of the object via actionscript they always show up as

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