mod:ctrl not working?

/castsequence reset=15 [nomod] Wrath of Air Totem, Healing Stream Totem, Stoneskin Totem, Searing Totem
/castsequence reset=15 [mod;alt] Windfury Totem, Healing Stream Totem, Stoneskin Totem, Searing Totem
/cast reset=15 [mod;ctrl] earth elemental totem

The mod;alt works fine, but not the ctrl modifier. If this matters at all, the key that i push to activate this is on action bar 1 button 1, tho i dont see why alt would work and not ctrl. Also, im not sure if i have this macro laid out properly or not, becuase the reset does not truely work, if i lay down only 3 totems, and wait about 10 minutes, then the next time i go to lay down totems, it will start the sequence with searing totems. . . Anybody want to shine their light upon this problem? :) thanks

Check if you have cleared the default keybind for <ctrl>+<key> on whatever key you are using. I made this mistake about a million times when I was setting up my first macros.

Just in case that's a copy/paste.
It's a colon, not a semicolon. No idea what that would do to the macro though, or why it'd work with a semicolon for [mod;alt] lol O_o

/cast [mod:ctrl]Spell; [mod:alt]Another Spell; Yet Another Spell