Checking session variables

I have an external login service that I'm using to authenticate users. After logging in, I get an XML file from which I can pull things like user ID and rights.
The login page redirects to an index page in another folder (which is protected by the authentication service) and on that page, I have a <cfif> statement that looks at rights.
The rights returned are "J" (for judge) and "A" (for admin), which I'm setting as the session variable: session.rights
If I do this:
<cfif session.rights eq "A">
admin section
<cfelseif session.rights eq "J">
judge section
<cfelse>
redirect to the login page
</cfif>
The else is what triggers. If I cfoutput #session.rights# I get J, but for some reason, J does not equal J. I've tried trimming it and everything, to no avail.
Any ideas?

Yeah, I've trimmed everything everywhere, to no avail.
Here's the dump result:
struct
emailaddr
[empty string]
newitem
1
rights
xml element
XmlName
TPEA_USER_TYPE
XmlNsPrefix
XmlNsURI
XmlText
J
XmlComment
XmlAttributes
struct [empty]
XmlChildren
sessionid
f0306d37e90bce8a818d7d7843e36516f1e7
tpeauser
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <NAME_FIRST>Dave</NAME_FIRST> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <NAME_LAST>Johnson</NAME_LAST>
trackingno
0
upacsid
[empty string]
upacsserver
[empty string]
urltoken
CFID=26143&CFTOKEN=6071485a4b7e13-F5282421-A324-841F-59919221D2C51604&jsessionid=f0306d37 e90bce8a818d7d7843e36516f1e7
userid
xml element
XmlName
USER_ID
XmlNsPrefix
XmlNsURI
XmlText
25481
XmlComment
XmlAttributes
struct [empty]
XmlChildren

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