Thanks for your reply graff. The first if statement was because I parsed the form at one point. I have cleaned up the script, and got rid of anything I don't need and I am still having the same problem. I tried putting reqpage in the page links, but still no luck.

I'm thinking the problem is with the links. I am having a hard wrapping my brain on how to create these links properly and what exactly I should be putting in them. I'm sure I am close to getting this working, so any help would be much appreciated. I have attached the updated script.
Thanks in advance. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI qw(:standard);
use DBI;
use warnings;
use strict; 

my (@row,$name,$path,$dsp,$count);


my $query = new CGI;
print $query->header('text/html');

print qq~
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Movie Search</title>
</head>

<body>

<br /><br />~;

    my $reqpage = $query->param('reqpage') || '1';    
    param('per_page');
        
    #Get total amount of rows from db
    my $dbh=DBI->connect($connectionInfo,$user,$passwd);
    my $num_rows= $dbh->selectrow_array('select count(name) from video
+ order by name');
    my $num_results_perpage = 25;
    
    # calculate the number of pages to show
    my $pagecount = int($num_rows / $num_results_perpage);
    if (($pagecount * $num_results_perpage) != $num_rows)
    {
        $pagecount++;
    }
    
    # calculate which results to show in the page
    my $firstresult = (($reqpage - 1) * $num_results_perpage) + 1;
    my $lastresult = $firstresult + $num_results_perpage - 1;
    if ($lastresult > $num_rows)
    {
        $lastresult = $num_rows;
    }
    
    # sql limit starts at 0
    my $start_point = $firstresult - 1;
    
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare("Select name,path from video order by name
+ LIMIT $start_point,$num_results_perpage"); 
    $sth->execute();
    while (@row = $sth->fetchrow_array())
    {
        $name = $row[0];
        $path = $row[1];
    
        $path =~ s/'/%27/g;
        $dsp = substr $path, 27, 255;
        print "<a href='/media/$dsp'>$name</a> <br />";
        
        $count=$count+1;
    }
    $sth->finish();
    
    # page links
    my ($prev_link, $next_link, $pagelinks, $pageno, $thislink, $pages
+ize);
    my $prev_page = $reqpage - 1;
    my $next_page = $reqpage + 1;
 
    if ($reqpage == 1)
    {
        $prev_link = "";
    }
    else
    {
        $prev_link = " <a href=\"http://path/to/script.cgi?reqpage=$re
+qpage=$prev_page\">". "previous" . "</a>";
    }
    if ($reqpage == $pagecount)
    {
        $next_link = "";
    }
    else
    {
        $next_link = " <a href=\"http://path/to/script.cgi?reqpage=$re
+qpage&page=$next_page\">". "Next" . "</a>";
    } 

    if ($pagecount > 1)
    {
        $pagelinks = $prev_link;
        $pageno = 0;
        while ($pageno < $pagecount)
        {
            $pageno++;
            if ($pageno == $reqpage)
            {
                $thislink = " <strong>$pageno</strong> ";
            }
            else
            {
                $thislink = " <a href=\"http://path/to/script.cgi?reqp
+age=$reqpage&page=$pageno\">" . $pageno . "</a>";
            }
            $pagelinks = $pagelinks . $thislink;
        }
        $pagelinks = $pagelinks . "   " . $next_link;
    }
    else
    {
        $pagelinks = "";
    }

print "<br />";    
print $count . "<br /><br />";
print $pagelinks . "<br />"; 
print "Database Results: " . $num_rows . "<br />"; 
print "Page " . $firstresult . "  Of&nbsp;&nbsp;" . $pageno;
print qq~
<br />
<br />
</body>
</html>~;

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