Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, the login credentials don't matter. The process of communication with mySQL doesn't get that far. The same test script I use on mine, works on other machines. If the DBI module were working correctly and it was mySQL that was having issues with login, it would report an error such as "Username/Password wrong" - I've had other people test the script even though they didn't have the database installed. But i can't even get THAT error up! :)