simple sql query is failing

I don't think it is coming up with an error. It is just not finding my email. I think it is looking for '[email protected]' and not finding it. It should be looking for [email protected] (ie without the '). I know this because when I hard code in I get through that part of the code.

Oh yeah the error there was just in case it does - but the last query should show if there are anything weird going into query, that's all.

Is the email exactly the same in DB, no spaces, no upper case letters or anything?