struggling with restrict access with access levels..

ok I have a restricted set of pages which is no problem, login all works great
everything fine. I want to add access levels to a couple of pages so only
Admin users can access them, I have specified on the login page to use access
levels and located the DB column to obtain them from, I have then on the page I
want to restrict chosen to restrict with username,password and access level,
created a level named Admin (as per database), but when i test it all it just
denies access even tho the login name I am using has Admin level in thier DB
row....

any thoughts please?