I really appreciate the great advice. I would never ask anyone to help me to build such a system. I was only curious as to whether or not it could be done. Since I see now that it is possible I will set to work on it. When I get somewhere with it I may come back for more advice. I built the application in Flash mainly because it does give the ability to create a stand alone application. What I am hoping for is to discover a way for the text file to be stored right there in a subfolder that I can just reference when a search is done. There is a minimum amount of people that would actually use the form. The others would only need to sign off the report once it is completed. The application is not web based but would reside on a common drive. I would have Perl installed on the M drive so that I would then have a local path to it. The end result would be a completely isolated application that would work no matter what pc the m drive was accessed from. Should be fun, eh? Thanks again for the great pointers!