Matthew,

>I had the "?" in for output to the screen while I tested the code. Yesterday it spit numeric amounts to the screen.
>

I don't see how...it would display do a comparison between the left and right side of the "=", and return true if they are equal.

Try this in your command window:

x = 5
? x = x       && shows true
? x = x + 1   && shows false
? x           && shows 5...x was not changed by previous line