Well, I did some more "debugging" and it turns out even when I put an echo in, it still didn't trigger. Puzzled, I opened up the script in mIRC's editor instead of my normal text editor w/ syntax highlighting, and somehow (by accident) the underline character (ctrl+u in mIRC) had gotten in front of the "on *:text:..." event and wasn't showing up in the text editor! Thanks for the help, I owe you one
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