Thanks alot ajt, Three words for you You're the man! I'm now able to save with a variable filename, after turning taint checking off. I don't know how to detaint data, so I just turned tainting off all together. I'm just happy to know what was causing the problem, never would have thought that tainted data would mess it up when using a constant name, it worked so I figured no different for variable, guess I was wrong. Thanks alot for all your words of wisdom! Bryan Willman