I understand your points of view about the code itself, other than the uncompiled code runs perfect until it is compiled. The other thing that really has me a bit worried is that this not working problem isnt only tied to this script we compiled about 60 of them and I even made a "Hello World" one that doesnt work either, although it doesnt give an error thru the browser, or on the command line. So this is leading me to believe that nothing is being passed to the Perl compiler. Any other ideas? Please?