my bad, my bad

I was doing the wrong thing, according to "scripting with Kixtart"
there is a section that says the following about variables "the only limitation in naming a variable is that it may not contain operator characters
(+,-,*,/,&,<,>,=) or a period.)

this was were I was making my mistake, I was putting the (&) in front of a variable.

I changed it and it worked.....