bart, duh, thanks so much. I guess I never knew some modules were written in perl. I should have guessed that. I couldn't get it to work by using 'use lib "/path/to/my/local/lib"; but I took your second idea, extracted the code into a .pl file and called it as a require. That solved the project's last outstaning requirement. Thanks so much I bow before the monk gates ;> STmindfulORM www.mindfulinthestorm.org