ASP Woes

Unfortunately I have to write an application for a client in ASP. For some reason they think that ASP/SQL Server is the way to go. Anyway, I'm trying to do a simple select population and tag on "selected" to whichever one the current ID matches up with. Here's my code:

                While Not jobs.EOF
                    If jobs.Fields.Item("title") <> "" Then
                        Response.Write "<option value=""" & jobs.Fields.Item("id").Value & """"
                        If  jobs.Fields.Item("id").Value = id Then
                            Response.Write " selected"
                        End If
                        Response.Write ">" & jobs.Fields.Item("title").Value & "</option>"                       
                    End If
                   
                    jobs.MoveNext()
                Wend

However, it doesn't output selected for any of them (I've made sure numerous times that they are actually equal, and every single time it's correct). What's the deal here?

No, I'll just continue to hate ASP's inconsistencies.