Difficulty understanding interpolation

[Chris Powell <helios@brickandivy.com>]

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I'm afraid I've run into what is probably a fairly simple problem to 
solve -- I'm relatively new to Minivend, thus still learning my way.

Let's say my user searches for a certain manufacturer.  On my 
results.html page I want it to say something like:

  We carry a full line of Kelty products!

which I accomplish via:

  We carry a full line of [value mv_searchspec] products!

The problem is, if there the user follows a [more] tag link, 
mv_searchspec gets nulled.  I've tried to get mv_searchspec set into a 
non-volatile scratch variable on the first results page by doing this:

[set mv_put_session]Yes[/set]
[set company]
[value mv_searchspec]
[/set]

but that is not working due to, I believe, the order things get 
interpolated.  That is, my variable 'company' actually gets set to the 
string "[value mv_searchspec]" ...

Is there a straightforward way to pull mv_* vars into my scratch space 
for preservation?

Thanks for the help,
Chris Powell
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Christopher Powell               Brick and Ivy Corporate Consulting
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