EMAIL constants are not working in new page

I have been creating numerous new php pages in the admin to suit specific needs of our business.

I have created a whole new order manager and finally got to the point of adding the functionality to send emails.

my problem is ALL zen cart constants work perfectly on the page except for any of them starting with EMAIL.

what am I missing here? I have looked through the WIKI and these forums. I cant find a thing.

I also compared my page with another one that uses these constants and there are NO other includes at all that my page is missing.

PLEASE HELP! this is driving me nuts! :)

example:

input code:
echo STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS . "<br>";
echo EMAIL_TEXT_COMMENTS_UPDATE;

Output:
[email protected]
EMAIL_TEXT_COMMENTS_UPDATE

ignore this...I got it... misspelled file name in admin/includes/languages/english/order_manager.php had orders_manager.php... thats what I get for coding when im tired! :)