So I am making this program in BATCH and it doesn't work. Here's the code along with comments saying what is going on. Any ideas would be great! I'm using Windows 7.

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:COLOR
REM THIS IS THE CURRENT ISSUE!!!!
if not exist installed_programs\accounts\%name%.color goto ukerr
set colset=<installed_programs\accounts\%name%.color
REM So this is the part that is messing up.
color %colset%
echo %colset%
pause
if exist installed_programs\accounts\%name%.color goto home
goto home
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REM What is happening is it is registering colset as 0<installed_programs\accounts\%name%.color
REM That is absolutely nonsense to the program.
REM The output looks like so:
REM set colset= 0<installed_programs\accounts\%name%.color
REM color
REM ECHO is off.
REM PAUSE