Ok 2 things:
Just for your information, and (where the credit is due,), the gd1.pl file came from this node by myocom at gd1.pl ... thanks myocom for getting me started on this path of working with the GD module!

Also, I apologize for the code which is very poorly spaced for some reason! When I previewed it, it was just fine, but my browser some how joo'ed it up... i'm using Opera 5.0 , but it still messed it up... does anyone know why my code got messed up when it looked fine in the preview page?

Andy Summers