NTE segment manipulation

I am working on an xlate for an ORM HL7 2.3 message that concatenates the comment contained in 2 NTEs after the MSH and the the comment contained in the 2 NTEs after the OBR into one field separated by a ~.  Then I am loading the concatenated field to a single NTE after the OBR.     Eventually, I need to split on the ~ so I can create a separate NTE for each subfield.   I can’t just copy the NTEs to after the OBR because we had to store a long comment to whatever NTEs would hold it and so I need to glue these back together to keep the integrity of the long comments.  Don’t ask!

Anyway, here is my delimna.   The first HL7 message passing thru this xlate in the engine and the testing tool great!   However, with subsequent messages processed, the new NTE segemnt I build in each has the comment contents of the previous message’s NTE preceeding what I expect to be loaded.   Obviously, it acts like I need to clear a field but I thought that the outbound side of the xlate was reset with each new HL7 message passing thru it.  

I have attached the xlate I built and here is the Data passing inbound followed by what is coming out.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!   Thank you!

Data inbound

MSH|^~&|OCRR|GSH||GSH|20070626080553||ORM^O01|337891|D|2.2

NTE|1|P|ORDER COMMENT 1 FROM AFFINITY

NTE|2|P|ORDER COMMENT 2 FROM AFFINITY

PID|||000106||INTERFACE^KAZ1^XV||19740923|M|INTERFACE^KAZ1|O|ROAD FIXED^^VINCENNES^IN^47591|KNOX|(777)777-7777|(111)111-1111||M||606171|545-44-5454

PV1||I|4E^411^1|9||||||MED||||9|||0686^CARANDANG^REYNALDO^A^^MD|MED|2796|199||||||||||||||||||||||||20070626080221

ORC|NW|L05836-1^HIS||||N|||20070626080553|KAZ|||ISDPRG

OBR|1|L05836-1^HIS||URINE-C^URINE CULTURE|||||||L||||11|0686^CARANDANG^REYNALDO^A^^MD||MICRO|||||||||1^^^20070626080300^^A

NTE|1|P|ITEM COMMENT 1 FROM AFFINITY

NTE|2|P|ITEM COMMENT 2 FROM AFFINITY

OBX|1|TX|CURNT ANTIBIOTIC^CURRENT ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY||NONE CURRENTLY BEING USED

OBX|2|CE|BS^BODY SITE||008^BLADDER^L

MSH|^~&|OCRR|GSH||GSH|20070626084641||ORM^O01|337892|D|2.2

NTE|1|P|BODY SITE,BLADDER::this is a comment coming from hom and I a

NTE|2|P|m trying to demonstrate how these fields populate affinity a

PID|||000106||INTERFACE^KAZ1^XV||19740923|M|INTERFACE^KAZ1|O|ROAD FIXED^^VINCENNES^IN^47591|KNOX|(777)777-7777|(111)111-1111||M||606171|545-44-5454

PV1||I|4E^411^1|9||||||MED||||9|||0686^CARANDANG^REYNALDO^A^^MD|MED|2796|199||||||||||||||||||||||||20070626080221

ORC|NW|L05837-1^HIS|2392184|||N|||20070626084641|SYS|||ISDPRG

OBR|1|L05837-1^HIS|2392184|URINE-C^URINE CULTURE|||||||L||||41|0686^CARANDANG^REYNALDO^A^^MD||MICRO||HOM_ORM^008|||||||1^^^20070626084000^^R

NTE|1|P|nd then go over to lab. hopefully this is working well.::CUR

NTE|2|P|RENT ANTIBIOTICS,none today::

Data outbound:

MSH|^~&|OCRR|GSH||GSH|20070626080553||ORM^O01|337891|D|2.2

PID|||000106||INTERFACE^KAZ1^XV||19740923|M|INTERFACE^KAZ1|O|ROAD FIXED^^VINCENNES^IN^47591|KNOX|(777)777-7777|(111)111-1111||M||606171|545-44-5454

PV1||I|4E^411^1|9||||||MED||||9|||0686^CARANDANG^REYNALDO^A^^MD|MED|2796|199||||||||||||||||||||||||20070626080221

ORC|NW|L05836-1^HIS||||N|||20070626080553|KAZ|||ISDPRG

OBR|1|L05836-1^HIS||URINE-C^URINE CULTURE|||||||L||||11|0686^CARANDANG^REYNALDO^A^^MD||MICRO|||||||||1^^^20070626080300^^A

NTE|||ORDER COMMENT 1 FROM AFFINITY~ORDER COMMENT 2 FROM AFFINITY~ITEM COMMENT 1 FROM AFFINITY~ITEM COMMENT 2 FROM AFFINITY

OBX|1|TX|CURNT ANTIBIOTIC^CURRENT ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY||NONE CURRENTLY BEING USED

OBX|2|CE|BS^BODY SITE||008^BLADDER^L

MSH|^~&|OCRR|GSH||GSH|20070626084641||ORM^O01|337892|D|2.2

PID|||000106||INTERFACE^KAZ1^XV||19740923|M|INTERFACE^KAZ1|O|ROAD FIXED^^VINCENNES^IN^47591|KNOX|(777)777-7777|(111)111-1111||M||606171|545-44-5454

PV1||I|4E^411^1|9||||||MED||||9|||0686^CARANDANG^REYNALDO^A^^MD|MED|2796|199||||||||||||||||||||||||20070626080221

ORC|NW|L05837-1^HIS|2392184|||N|||20070626084641|SYS|||ISDPRG

OBR|1|L05837-1^HIS|2392184|URINE-C^URINE CULTURE|||||||L||||41|0686^CARANDANG^REYNALDO^A^^MD||MICRO||HOM_ORM^008|||||||1^^^20070626084000^^R

NTE|||ORDER COMMENT 1 FROM AFFINITY~ORDER COMMENT 2 FROM AFFINITY~ITEM COMMENT 1 FROM AFFINITY~ITEM COMMENT 2 FROM AFFINITY~BODY SITE,BLADDER~this is a comment coming from hom and I am trying to demonstrate how these fields populate affinity and then go over to lab. hopefully this is working well.~CURRENT ANTIBIOTICS,none today