WinCraps CheckStack string variable issue

Greetings,

For those familiar with WinCraps & the scripting language, I am troubleshooting a script I've built. It passes the internal structure check & all of the logic works except for where I have given a checkstack a string value & assigned this checkstack a name. The name gets placed properly but the value remains at 0.
Script lines:
cs9.HandPhase = "None" :
csn9 = "Hand Phase" :

It successfully reads both of these and places "HandPhase" in the variable name field properly, but it is assigned a value of "0". If I change cs9.HandPhase = "Test" :,
reininitialize & run the script again, the value for cs9.HandPhase still remains at "0". If I change
cs9.HandPhase = 311 :,
reininitialize and rerun the script, the value for cs9.HandPhase is now "311". It seems to only like it when I assign numerical values to the CheckStack variable!?!

At later points in the script I try to change the value of cs9 to a different string (such as cs9.HandPhase = "P1" :) and it successfully reads the line of script but the value of cs9 doesn't change.

Any ideas or help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you!
AkaJackson