Only a guess, but is your 6000 supervisor module configured with a non-standard prompt?

Hard to help without seeing the code, brother ericj.   Would you post a reply to your original question with relevant section of the script?   Oh yeah, and remember to surround the code itself with "<code>" tags.
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