I agree with Chady, it is a bit hard to help out without seeing your code.

Also, yes, ALWAYS, I repeat, always use CGI.pm, since it is bundled with most Perl distro's now days, leaving no excuses (usually) about "oh I can't user CGI.pm since my server doesn't support, etc."

Last but not least, I would suggest choosing another server to do this work on... perhaps you should see jcwren's homenode, and find about Perlmonk where you can get free testing space for your stuff!

Andy Summers