perplexing logic:present problem

[Gran Roguismo]

I'm having problems with a logic present tag on a single page.
I am using it on other pages with no ill effect, and I wonder what the problem is with this one.
here are the tags from a working page:

<logic :-P	 resent name="sumBeans" scope="request">
<logic:notEmpty name="sumBeans" scope="request">

and the non workign page

<logic :-P	 resent name="custBeans" scope="request">
<logic:notEmpty name="custBeans" scope="request">

the names are set respectivly in the action

now when I remove the present tag for the non-working page, I get what I'm looking for. So in other words, the logic:nonEmpty tag IS working.
Is there something else that I might have put into the page that would effect this?

I even did a search through the code and found that custBeans was not being used anywhere else.

thanks

[Gran Roguismo]

to explain perhaps a little furthur, the page does not break, it just will not display, as if the bean was not present