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Sartre's certainly not a Platonist; the main problem with your formulation, roachboy, is that for Sartre, what the situation itself is is dependant on our choices.
As far as an objection to Sartre's notion of radical freedom -- Sartre says that once in a great while, we undergo a 'radical conversion', a fundamental shift in the way we view the world. Because its so fundamental, there can't be any reasons for the shift. This is, for Sartre, the paradigm of what freedom is. But how do we distinguish the sort of freedom of radical conversion from mere randomness?
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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