[away3d] Weird behaviour when adding point to sphere

[Dan]

Dear all,

I have a sphere to which i would like to add a point. But that sphere
is behaving really weird:

        public function loadLocationOnSphere(x:Number, y:Number,
z:Number):void
        {
                //updating the call
                var pointItem:Sphere = new Sphere( { material:"red", radius:20,
segmentsW:6, segmentsH:4 } );


                        group.addChild(pointItem);

                        var myX:Number = new Number(x);
                        var myY:Number = new Number(y);
                        var myZ:Number = new Number(z);

                        pointItem.x = myX;
                        pointItem.y = myY;
                        pointItem.z = myZ;

                        //pointItem.x = -491.80505;
                        //pointItem.y = -691.41640;
                        //pointItem.z = -2338.26134;

                        this.view.render();

as you can see the code is nothing special.

But the weird thing is that if i pass to the function the values that
are hardcoded in the call the point does not get drawn.

Like: loadLocationOnSphere(-491.80505,-691.41640,-2338.26134); -
doesnt work

But if i remove the comments around the hard coded numbers the point
draws on the sphere.

Can anyone please suggest what could be possibly going on?

Any advice is appreciated.

Sincerely
Dan