...or perhaps it's just my AS! Anyway I'm stuck again and turning to you guys for help.

After lots of debugging I found that dataset.find() only lets you search a dataset with 1 value accurately (specifying multiple values which it is obvious exist in the dataset keeps returning "not found").

However my main problem that I'm posting about here is the complete opposite: the dataset is returning "found" even when the value doesn't exist!

Here is my AS:

if {//dataset length is 0, add a value to the dataset }
else { // so the dataset length is not 0
      trace("finding context: "+contextvalue);
        if(contextlist3.find([contextvalue])) { // if found
      trace("found context");
        existing=contextlist3.id;
      trace("id found: "+existing);
      return existing;
        }

        else { //if not found
       trace("getting to newpos");
}

I realize this is very vague but I think it just may be my if/else structure? I even tried a "if not":

if(!contextlist3.find([contextvalue])) {
trace("not found");
}
else { // do something else }

but it still branches to the "else".

I realize there is an adobe notice regarding binding and the dataset bugs but mine is bound correctly, I can add values etc fine but it always returns a "found"... really wierd. Any feedback/advice much appreciated!

Update: I have discovered that if I try searching for a string it exhibits the above behaviour, but if it's a numerical value it doesn't. I've been reading about the datatype.setAsString or something but I have no clue what it's on about. Any ideas?

The values I am searching for are:
"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001"
and "Unknown"

and they both are apparently equal according to dataset.find.