serout Tx, 2, [" 3. Auto-Acquire Satellite", 13, 10]
serout Tx, 2, [" 4. Stow Dish for Travel", 13, 10, 10]
serout Tx, 2, ["Enter Your Selection:", 13, 10]
pause 500
Serin RX, 2, 500, MainMenu, cereal

If cereal = "1" then goto HomeDish
If cereal = "2" then goto JogMenu
If cereal = "3" then goto AutoAcquire
If cereal = "4" then goto StowDish
serout TX, 2, [cereal] 'For debugging only
serout TX, 2, ["Dingleberry"]
pause 1500
goto MainMenu

Now I can see the 500 passing as the Main Menu 'blinks' from being called over and over, but still no go. The above code still yields:
[00]Dingleberry

instead of 1Dingleberry