I really apprciate all your help, but I think the point of my question is being overlooked. There isnt any problem with the uncompiled version. I have spent the last 3 months testing it in the uncompiled form. Then I compile it and get nothing, but if I then use the GUI decompiler the code gets decompiled fine, I need to see Exactly the code that the perl compiler is getting after being passed thru the source filter