bash script pulling variables from .txt, keeps giving syntax error while trying to use mount command - bash

Question

Ive been trying to get this to work for the last week and cannot figure out why this is not working. I get mixed results typing directly into the terminal, but keep getting syntax error messages when running from the .sh. using ubuntu 11.10
It looks like part of the mount command gets pushed to the next line not allowing it to complete properly.. I have no idea why this is happening or how to prevent it from going to the second line.
i have several lines defined as follows in mounts.txt, that gets read from mount-drives.sh below
I have called it to run using sudo so it shouldnt be a permissions issue.
Thanks for taking a look, let me know if additional info is needed.
mounts.txt
mountname,//server/share$,username,password,
mount-drives.sh ---origional, updated below
#!/bin/bash
while read LINE;
do
# split lines up using , to separate variables
name=$(echo $LINE | cut -d ',' -f 1)
path=$(echo $LINE | cut -d ',' -f 2)
user=$(echo $LINE | cut -d ',' -f 3)
pass=$(echo $LINE | cut -d ',' -f 4)
echo $name
echo $path
echo $user
echo $pass
location="/mnt/test/$name/"
if [ ! -d $location ]
then
mkdir $location
fi
otherstuff="-o rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,username=$user,password=$pass"
mount -t cifs $otherstuff $path $location
done < "/path/to/mounts.txt";
mount-drives.sh ---updated
#!/bin/bash
while read LINE
do
name=$(echo $LINE | cut -d ',' -f 1)
path=$(echo $LINE | cut -d ',' -f 2)
user=$(echo $LINE | cut -d ',' -f 3)
pass=$(echo $LINE | cut -d ',' -f 4)
empty=$(echo $LINE | cut -d ',' -f 5)
location="/mount/test/$name/"
if [ ! -d $location ]
then
mkdir $location
fi
mounting="mount -t cifs $path $location -o username=$user,password=$pass,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777"
$mounting
echo $mounting >> test.txt
done < "/var/www/MediaCenter/mounts.txt"

Answer 1

Stab in the dark (after reading the comments). The "$pass" is picking up a newline because the mounts.txt was created in windows and has windows line endings. Try changing the echo $pass line to:
echo ---${pass}---
and see if it all shows up correctly.

Answer 2

There's a lot here that could stand improvement. Consider the following -- far more compact, far more correct -- approach:
while IFS=, read -u 3 -r name path user pass empty _; do
mkdir -p "$location"
cmd=( mount \
-t cifs \
-o "rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,username=$user,password=$pass" \
"$path" "$location" \
)
printf -v cmd_str '%q ' "${cmd[#]}" # generate a string corresponding with the command
echo "$cmd_str" >>test.txt # append that string to our output file
"${cmd[#]}" # run the command in the array
done 3<mounts.txt
Unlike the original, this will work correctly even if your path or location values contain whitespace.