email to form problem

I have a weird problem and will appreciate any input. I have a form that will be filled by salespeople which has 189 fields. The salesperson, then, emails the form to his/hers manager.
I use a URL.RecID variable to track the state of the form.
0- salesperson
1- manager
2- approval

When the form is emailed to the manager (state - 1) , i use a custom tag to create hidden fields with a button at the end. When clicked, that button opens a new page with all the values entered by the salesperson.
the problem is it doesn't see the hidden values in the email form. everything is blank. During my test, I send an email to myself, then opened it up and view the source. I was able to see all <input type="hidden" name="something" value="sdd">. so the values are there. by the way, this is for an intranet and everyone uses IE6. does anyone know what goes ?

i got it, it was actually some other problem but for some reason CF errored out saying undefined variable :P