LOL with this whole thread.

Good luck with your reCAPTCHA project. I don't think the Monks are likely to help you much on this project, for the two main reasons already noted repeatedly above:

1. It's more effort than it's worth to most people;
2. Nothing you say will convince us you aren't just a hacker. You can insist your SysAdmin says it's okay, but that's what a hacker would have said so you earn no points there.

After you get it working, you could publish it as Data::Hacking::CAPTCHA or something similar.

:-)