Well... Now I see what a 24 hour wait for a response gets you around here!

Thank you all! I'll respond to each of you in turn, as many of you asked questions of me.

So far, everyone seems to point to the same books... good sign. Stupid me checked out Waldenbooks, and couldn't find a single book on Perl. I was worried that 'Perl for Dummies' would end up being my only option!

As to getting my feet wet... shouldn't be long... I've been cruising this site for a few days, and several chunks of code are already beginning to make sence... seems like my biggest problem right now is the vocabulary that you guys use to refer to seperate types of processes... Ill get it all down quickly Im sure.

Me