Incorrect Special Price pulled in for product

[paulgoodfield]

I have a PHP script that gets a product and displays it's Special Price:

$productModel = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');	
$product      = $productModel->load(3030);
var_dump($product->getData('special_price'));

This displays the following:

string '1.9500' (length=6)

However, the product has a value of 0.95 in the Special Price field in the Magento admin area. Can't seem to find a way of getting the actual field value via PHP.

Using Magento version 1.5.1.0

[paulgoodfield]

Any help appreciated...