Using THIS_SCRIPT and $pages['name'] in templates

[mike406]

I'm adding some custom tabs in my navbar template, but am unable to have a tab show up as 'selected' when using the following conditional:

<vb:if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'adv_index' AND $pages['name'] == 'home'">
<li class="selected"><a class="navtab" href="http://www.myforum.com/forums/home.php?pageid=home">Network</a>
{links and menus here}
</li>
<vb:else />
<li><a class="navtab" href="http://www.myforum.com/forums/home.php?pageid=home">Network</a></li>
</vb:if>

Using the following conditional will not make the tab appear as selected when viewing pageid=home. However the conditional works fine in Plugins, however I do not want to use a plugin for my tabs.