[v8] Key in help with cells

I'm trying to place a cell using a key in.

The key in im using is  'as=1;aa=0;lv=3;co=2;c,<cellname>'

but this is only setting the active scale & angle to 0 and the level to 3, the color stays 0 as it is in the cell library.

any ideas why this  does not work

Cheers

Mark