Well, thanks guys. After I posted, I was playing around with it, and I remembered a few things...

Here is how I got it to work.

    $sth = $dbh1->selectrow_array (
                "SELECT * FROM `some_table_name`
                LIMIT 1");


if ($dbh1->errstr) {
#Does not exist
} else {
# DOES exist
}
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I used LIMIT 1 in case it does exist and has thousands of entries. This way it will be faster, if it does exist. Otherwise it don't matter.

It worked for what I was wanting it to do.

thx,
Richard