I had a similar situation on my old site. We had a bug tracking cgi program that we wanted to display with our menus and what-not all around it. It sounds like a very similar situation indeed.

Where our situations differ is that I had my own template system that involved finding HTML REM tags, and replacing them with whatever was called for in the HTML tags. My template system would go through, look for these tags, and then run the appropriate subroutine. When it got to the tag for the bug tracking system, I just ran the cgi script. The advantage I had about our bug tracking system is that you could tell it not to print header/footer information (IE, the BODY, HTML, HEAD, etc tags). With that stuff gone, I could easily insert it where I wanted.

You might be able to do a very similar thing with your application. You might be able to get all the output stored into a buffer, and you'd only have to print out the buffer when you needed to.

Hope that helps steer you in the right direction.

--Coplan