i'm going crazy....can someone tell me what's going on here? my code:

print p("line 109");
print start_form({ -action  => "$thisscript",
        -method  => "post" });
print hidden('action','logout');
print submit('Logout');
print end_form;
print p("line 115");
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the resulting HTML:

line 109
</p>
<form method="post" action="ti_login.pl" enctype="multipart/form-data"
+>
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="login"  /><input type="submi
+t" tabindex="1" name="Logout" value="Logout" /><div></div></form><p>
line 115
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why is it assigning the value to the hidden input "action" as "login", when it should be "logout"??

i do have another conditional loop in the script that assigns the hidden input named "action" to the value "login", and that's why i put the silly print lines in to make sure i was not looping out to another part of the code inadvertantly...

any help appreciated, and my apologies in advance for raising such a ridiculous problem to great minds here, but i'm out of ideas!! (and stumped as to what could be happening) TIA