Flash remoting connection to gallery 2

I have a nicely operating gallery 2 on my wife's website. I want to develop my own flash interface/theme for it. Rather that just skinning the existing interface though I'd like to start from a barebones flash application and use flash remoting to connect to the database. Should I use the embed.php file and the GalleryEmbed class? That class doesn't seem to have any image-viewing, album browsing, etc. capabilities. Am I looking in the wrong place? I've been scouring the API documentation but it's about as clear as if it were written in another language without any examples or tutorials to speak of. Can someone help me out? I'm not really interested in user management. Like I said, I want this to be more of a flash interface to viewing albums. So I just want to have PHP-based access to the following information in my gallery:

List of albums
List of photos in an album
Information about a specific photo in an album
Ability to pull up photos by photo ID

Any pointers as to where to look or (better yet) actual instruction would be greatly appreciated!

Fowie