Selecting Row of Outline (UI Script)

I’m desperate here. Anyone have an idea about why this isn’t working:

set theWin to window “Open” of application process “Freehand MX”
set theRow to row 3 of outline 1 of scroll area 1 of UI element 3 of theWin
tell theRow to set selected to true
set selVar to selected of theRow
return selVar

selVar is always false. I’ve also tried ‘select theRow’

any ideas…please…thanks.