'falls over' ... I just had this conversation with Kanji - he rightly asked the same q. And to my shame, I don't know. I came to Perl as a CGI language and am only just starting to use it for anything else, so (a) my default is always to write my scripts as CGIs and (b) I get all my error info from CGI::Carp. Just now was the first time since I rented my current server that I tried to look up my error logs... and I don't have any! So all I know is that I get a Server Error page in mid-flight - and when I check, I find my script wrote a thousand or so entries in the pwd file. Sorry not to be more informational. I'll fix up the logs and run it again.

§ George Sherston