Aaron,
In your destination address paths don’t use the iteration counter – leve the value as zeros.
After all for each new message you only want the first set of segments (ORC and on).
I don’t htink in this case you need to manage your own counter.
However if you did need to manage your own counter a temp variable won’t do.
The iteration counter has to have the construct %x999 where x is s for segment, l for list, f for field and the 9’s are numeric values. I like to start at 99 for counters I manage as that stands out for me. Then you can reference your own or ITERATE established countes in an Action (like a COPY or MATH) by adding a $ in fornt. For example if I need to manage a segment repetition counter and call it %s99 to add one to it I would use $%s99 in the MATH Action but just %s99 in the address pathing.
email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 30+ years Cloverleaf, 60 years IT – old fart.