I thought of that, and initializing it at it''s declaration didn''t change anything. But, I think we both may be on the right track. Taking out the whole top condition and statments fixes things, so it may have something to do with the undetermined state of the variable before run time. I took out all optimazations thinking along these lines, but no go.

You could try using a different namespace for your variables in that particular function to see what that gives... Not sure but that''s what it sounds like to me...