I agree as well. (If any of you would like some "gory details" to help clear your mental security defenses, please feel free to email me at dataking <at> cox <dot> net, and I'll be glad to fill you in.)

I'll be checking out the Acme::Bleach module you suggested. Sounds interesting.

And please trust that if there were a better solution for this I would definitely be going that route.

Thanks again for all of your advice and guidance.