Text Box Sizing Issue

I have a lua that displays text boxes on my screen letting me know things like nuke mode, element etc. For some reason sometimes when it loads the boxes just do their own thing and ignore the sizing parameter in the lua. Any ideas why? Here's the relevant section of code.

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windower.prim.create('NUKE_ELEMENT')
windower.prim.set_size('NUKE_ELEMENT',200,30)
windower.prim.set_texture('NUKE_ELEMENT',''..windower.windower_path..'addons/GearSwap/data/'..player.name..'/images/icenukes.png')
windower.prim.set_position('NUKE_ELEMENT',1000,50)
windower.prim.set_color('NUKE_ELEMENT', 150, 255, 255, 255)
windower.prim.set_visibility('NUKE_ELEMENT',true)
--send_command('text tpvariable text "ICE NUKES";text tpvariable color 0 255 255;')

windower.prim.create('MP_EFFICIENCY')
windower.prim.set_size('MP_EFFICIENCY',200,30)
windower.prim.set_texture('MP_EFFICIENCY',''..windower.windower_path..'addons/GearSwap/data/'..player.name..'/images/mpeoff.png')
windower.prim.set_position('MP_EFFICIENCY',1000,90)
windower.prim.set_color('MP_EFFICIENCY', 150, 255, 255, 255)
windower.prim.set_visibility('MP_EFFICIENCY',true)
--send_command('text idlevariable text "MPE-OFF"')

--send_command('text wsvariable text "MM-OFF"')
windower.prim.create('MAGIC_MODE')
windower.prim.set_size('MAGIC_MODE',200,30)
windower.prim.set_texture('MAGIC_MODE',''..windower.windower_path..'addons/GearSwap/data/'..player.name..'/images/magicpotency.png')
windower.prim.set_position('MAGIC_MODE',1000,130)
windower.prim.set_color('MAGIC_MODE', 150, 255, 255, 255)
windower.prim.set_visibility('MAGIC_MODE',true)
--send_command('text pdtvariable text "MAGIC-POTENCY"')

I fiddled with it for about 3 hours tonight and was able to fix the issue. I had to alter the original picture files so they would be the size I wanted, thereby making the re-sizing command in the lua irrelevant.