'Where' clauses syntax problem

Hi guys,

Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong here.

To summarise what I want, I have a list of courses at a college, and for this page I only want Hospitality Courses to be presented on the page. Then I want to be able to further sub divide the VCE VET Courses of Hospitality into another section on the page.

When I put in the Where clauses to do this, no results come up, when I remove them I get all the results back (i.e. no restriction of Hospitality or VCE Vet courses) :

<?php
require_once "/home/jstockst/public_html/ects/cmsAdmin/lib/viewer_functions.php";

list($coursesRecords, $coursesMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'courses',
'loadUploads' => '0',
'allowSearch' => '0',
'where' => 'area_of_interest = "Hospitality"',
));

list($coursesVceRecords, $coursesVceMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'courses',
'where' => 'course_type = "VCE VET Course"',
));

list($course_home_pagesRecords, $course_home_pagesMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'course_home_pages',
'where' => whereRecordNumberInUrl(1),
'limit' => '1',
));
$course_home_pagesRecord = @$course_home_pagesRecords[0]; // get first record


?>

Then my code down below is:

<?php foreach ($coursesVceRecords as $record): ?> <a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?>"><?php echo $record['course_title'] ?></a><br/>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<h3>POST SECONDARY COURSES </h3>
<?php foreach ($coursesRecords as $record): ?> <a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?>"><?php echo $record['course_title'] ?></a><br/>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<h3>SHORT COURSES</h3>
<?php foreach ($coursesRecords as $record): ?> <a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?>"><?php echo $record['course_title'] ?></a><br/>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>
<?php if (!$coursesRecords): ?>
No records were found!<br/>
<br/>
<?php endif ?>


Now to go through what I have checked - the table name is correct, the field names are correct and the values in the Where clause are identical (I checked them in PHPMyAdmin to make sure I wasn't going insane).