Thread:Project:Support desk/ switch isn't working?

MediaWiki 1.16.0 PHP 5.2.15 (cgi-fcgi) MySQL 5.1.53-log

I've been trying to do an update to one of my infoboxes today. Basically, I'm trying to add in a switch parser that takes one of the inputs (active vs inactive) and uses that to change the class of the template, so that I can switch its colors. Unfortunately, I'm only ever getting the default value that I enter and I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong.

This is a portion of my infobox code: {| class="infobox " style="font-size: 89%; width: 300px;" ! class="infobox_header" colspan="2" style="font-size: 120%; padding: 1em;" | ! colspan="2" class="infobox_header" | race::Marked
 * - style="text-align: center;"
 * colspan="2" style="padding: 0.5em;" | 
 * style="width: 30%;" | Created By
 * style="width: 70%;" | author::
 * style="width: 30%;" | Group
 * style="width: 70%;" | membergroup::
 * style="width: 30%;" | Status
 * style="width: 70%;" | status::
 * style="width: 30%;" | Status
 * style="width: 70%;" | status::
 * style="width: 70%;" | status::

I've tried entering in default values for that 'status' parameter, but nothing has made a difference and the switch always goes to its default setting. I am also using semantic mediawiki if that makes a different.

I'd love any input.