Ya flash is cool for web publishing and small websites, but for this particular application, I don't think Flash is even an option. jdporter is right about the lack of support, not to mention learning actionscripting.

But I think I will look into FastCGI for future applications. I just got scared that Perl might not ::gulp:: be better than another language for a web task. So now that you guys helped put that to rest...I can feel better writing this in Java.

bW