PHP query returned value problem...

Hi again Experts.... Julia here...

I have the following query on a page, which returns a chat room name.  According to that name, I assign a value to another variable to say if that chat room is either public or private.  Now, this works for certain rooms and not for others and it 's very unstable.  Sometimes it returns the right thing, sometimes it doesn't, so I'm baffled.  I tried everything, single = , double ==, if/else statements, if/elseif/else statements... Nothing works, so I come to you...

here is the code on the page.  Keep in mind that I'm just a little amateure programmer, so this might be all very confusing cause it's not necessarilly as neet as it should be ;)

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$IP;


$Sql = "Select avail, Login, Member from PM where IpAddress = '$IP'";
$res = mysql_query($Sql);
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res);
$result= $row['avail'];
$result2= $row['Login'];
$result3= $row['Member'];

$Sql4 = "Select picture from pictures where member = '$result3'";
$res4 = mysql_query($Sql4);
$row4 = mysql_fetch_assoc($res4);
$result4= $row4['picture'];

$Sql5 = "Select Broadcasting from PM where IpAddress = '$IP'";
$res5 = mysql_query($Sql5);
$row5 = mysql_fetch_assoc($res5);
$result5= $row5['Broadcasting'];

$Sql7 = "Select info2, info4 from profile where ID = '$result3'";
$res7 = mysql_query($Sql7);
$row7 = mysql_fetch_assoc($res7);
$result7= $row7['info2'];
$result8= $row7['info4'];

$Sql8 = "Select room from chat_users where name = '$result2'";
$res8 = mysql_query($Sql8);
$row8 = mysql_fetch_assoc($res8);
$room = $row8['room'];


echo $result;
echo ',';
echo $result2;
echo ',';
echo $result3;
echo ',';
if ($result4) {
echo 'http://www.mysite.com/pictures/'; echo $result4;
echo ',';

} else {

echo 'http://www.mysite.com/pictures/nopic.gif';
echo ',';
}

if ($result5 == 1) {
echo 'Broadcasting,';
}
else {
echo 'Not Broadcasting,';
}

if ($room == 'The Lounge' || $room == 'The Penthouse' || $room == ' The Bar' || $room == 'Friends' || $room == 'Couples' || $room == 'Swingers' || $room == 'Married' || $room == 'Single Parents') {
echo 'Public';
}
else {
echo 'Private';
}

echo ',';
echo $result7;
echo ',';
echo $result8;

?>



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So, what is going on here?  Why is it that when I'm in my room "The Bar" it still says i'm in a private room when, as far as I can see, it should say PUBLIC, no?  I also tried it like this...

if ($room = 'The Lounge' || $room = 'The Penthouse' || $room = ' The Bar' || $room = 'Friends' || $room = 'Couples' || $room = 'Swingers' || $room = 'Married' || $room = 'Single Parents') {
echo 'Public';
}
else {
echo 'Private';
}

in which case it says that i'm in a public room even when I'm in a private one... ARGHHHH... Help!