Conditional Frustration!

Hi. I'm quite new to Apex, and have repeatedly re-visted the forum to find answers, but I am so furstrated with Apex at the moment, I felt I had to post this.
The problem I am having is nothing clever, and it isn't part of my final application. I have published the URL of a demo application to a group of users. Whilst they are looking at it, I thought I would develop it some more, but wanted to hide this work from the others. I know there are proper ways to release an application (which will go live on another server), but this really is just a proof of concept at the moment.
What I thought I would do, is work on a form on a new tab, and hide the tab using conditional processing.
I have chosen the condition "item=value".
In expression 1, I have put &USER. (including the full stop).
In expression 2, I have put 123456 (my network login - I am using the mod_ntlm to parse my network login ok). I've tried with and without quotes.
However, when I run the application, the TAB is not displayed. Now, here is the frustrating bit....if I remove the conditional display, and change the tab label to be &USER. it displays itself as 123456. So why doesn't the conditional processing work?
I've got a feeling it will be something laughably simple, so please be gentle with me - it's my first post!!
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to help!

Hi Jes. Thanks for the reply. I've been playing around with &APP_USER. and &USER. I am happy that &USER. does provide the necessary value - access to the application is by network authentication; when using the mod_ntlm apache add-on, I get back the actual network login into the &USER variable.
I think the solution to my own problem, is not to use item=value, but instead to code the condition as a SQL_Expression, and put
&USER. = 123456
This does work.
I'm finding little aspects of APEX, like this, very frustrating. It's a brilliant tool, but just a few niggles that turn really really rapid developments into a bit of a slog at times.
Again, thanks for taking the time to reply, and hopefully I can move on to the next stumbling block!

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Lance Botha

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ok here it goes.Im so sorry that i post this thing inside this topic because i dont know and i cant see wheres the 'New Topic' button that available.Please look again. This is inappropriate place to place a question and will only make you look foolish.
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