PHP/MySQL noob rides again.. into trouble

Hi all, I have a site where users can search study projects. I'd like to be able to clicks on a project title which passes a variable to this page, which then displays all the data on that project in a table. Cool - and to a noob like me, actually pretty exciting. Except it doesn't work. I get a "couldn't set value of result" message - see end of code. The page displayed all the projects fine when I messed up passing them from the previous page, so the problem is presumably in the first SQL query. Any suggestions? <? $connect = mysql_connect("", "", "") or die("could not connect"); $db = mysql_select_db("") or die("could not select db"); if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['projTitle'])) { $SQLQuery = "SELECT * FROM project WHERE projTitle = ".$HTTP_GET_VARS['projTitle'] or die("SQLQuery 1 failed"); } else { $SQLQuery = "SELECT*FROM project ORDER BY projTitle" or die("SQLQuery 2 failed"); } $result = mysql_query($SQLQuery,$connect) or die("couldn't set value of result"); ?> TIA Paul