As a follow-up, a tilde (~) also designates elementwise operations, and (using pagan's example) one could use:

>(A/~B)^~C;

Also note that in math mode you can use  (\) as an escape key allowing you to type ^,*,_,/ and other operators that would typically do something else. Thus type \ / and it will give /.

If I run code like Pagan recommended (or what I had initially), regardless of the mode or input method I get the same results. However, if I set printlevel on the SAME line that the command is (like John May), it works. This is the problem:

 >restart;
 >printlevel;
                                           1
 >printlevel:=100; printlevel;
                                     printlevel:=100
                                          100
 >printlevel;
                                            1

It works like this no matter which input method or mode I use. I am quite confused now, is it possible that a firewall or something is blocking printlevel from changing?
As before, it still works inside procedures and loops inside procedures.

Also, as a direct response to pagan, I tried the input method and modes you suggested for my original problem multiple times and it hasn't worked.

I am running a networked version of Maple 14 on 64 bit Windows 7.