Only hard-coded numbers are working

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I have been struggling to get dynamic width and height values to work. The values trace fine, but only hard-coded numbers are working. I have the variables set to Number data type and cannot think what else to do. Can somebody please slap my sleepy face and explain what I am missing. Thanks.

var deviceWidth:Number = stage.fullScreenWidth;
	var deviceHeight:Number = stage.fullScreenHeight;
	var pageWidth:Number = (stage.fullScreenWidth / 2);
	var pageHeight:Number = (stage.fullScreenHeight / 2);
	trace('thispage: ' + thispage);
	trace('deviceWidth: ' + deviceWidth);
	trace('deviceHeight: ' + deviceHeight);
	trace('pageWidth: ' + pageWidth);
	trace('pageHeight: ' + pageHeight);
	//var thispage = '';
	//thispage = vars.currentPage;
	if (vars.currentOrientation == 'portrait') {
		// Portrait
		if (deviceWidth > deviceHeight) {
			vars.pages[thispage].bg.width = pageWidth;
			vars.pages[thispage].bg.height = pageHeight;
		} else {
			vars.pages[thispage].bg.height = pageWidth;
			vars.pages[thispage].bg.width = pageHeight;
		}
	} else {
		// Landscape
		if (deviceWidth > deviceHeight) {
			vars.pages[thispage].bg.width = pageWidth;
			vars.pages[thispage].bg.height = pageHeight;
		} else {
			vars.pages[thispage].bg.height = pageWidth;
			vars.pages[thispage].bg.width = pageHeight;
		}
	}
	//vars.pages[thispage].bg.height = 500;
	//vars.pages[thispage].bg.width = 500;

[::bluemoth::]

Nevermind. I decided to try the dynamic values outside the conditional block, and voila. They work. Not sure why the conditional block fails silently, but that isn't important right now. Thanks anyway to anybody reading this.