Thanks for your recommendations Fastolfe and Tune of using $ENV{'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'} unfortunately this turned up to be a blank too. So I decided to try to record all the current environment variables when ever a user logs into to our web site. Here is a typical expample of what I received for each login: 
User: Appnut
SERVER_SOFTWARE is set to Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) PHP/4.0.3pl1
GATEWAY_INTERFACE is set to CGI/1.1
DOCUMENT_ROOT is set to /usr/local/www/htdocs/classicappliances
REMOTE_ADDR is set to 216.23.15.143
REQUEST_METHOD is set to POST
QUERY_STRING is set to 
HTTP_ACCEPT is set to application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, ap
+plication/vnd.ms-powerpoint, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, 
+image/pjpeg, */*
REMOTE_PORT is set to 46795
SERVER_ADDR is set to 216.23.15.143
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE is set to en-us
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING is set to gzip, deflate
SCRIPT_FILENAME is set to /usr/local/www/htdocs/classicappliances/cgi-
+bin/userlogin.cgi
SERVER_NAME is set to classicappliances.com
HTTP_PRAGMA is set to no-cache
SERVER_PORT is set to 80
PATH_TRANSLATED is set to /usr/local/www/htdocs/classicappliances/cgi-
+bin
SERVER_ADMIN is set to [no address given]
SCRIPT_URI is set to http://classicappliances.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/clas
+sicappliances/userlogin.cgi
SCRIPT_URL is set to /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/classicappliances/userlogin.cgi
SERVER_SIGNATURE is set to <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.12 Server at classicapp
+liances.com Port 80</ADDRESS>

SERVER_PROTOCOL is set to HTTP/1.0
HTTP_REFERER is set to http://classicappliances.com/NEW%20DISCUSS/DISP
+LAY%20PAGES/NEW%20DISCUSS%20LOGIN.htm
HTTP_USER_AGENT is set to Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 
+95)
PATH is set to /usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin
+:/usr/ucb:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/local/scripts:/usr/local
+/www/bin:/shared/var/common:.
TZ is set to US/Pacific
SCRIPT_NAME is set to /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/classicappliances/userlogin.cgi
REQUEST_URI is set to /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/classicappliances/userlogin.cgi
PATH_INFO is set to 
CONTENT_LENGTH is set to 51
CONTENT_TYPE is set to application/x-www-form-urlencoded
HTTP_FORWARDED is set to by http://uspxy16.fa.aexp.com:8080 (Netscape-
+Proxy/3.53)
HTTP_HOST is set to www.classicappliances.com

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I tried to contact the technical support of my ISP and they said "sorry, but we don't provide tech support for CGI programming". So I'm still stuck, any other ideas out there? Thanks again for everyone's suggestions

In reply to Re: Re: Re: IP Address of Person Submitting Log-In Request by Unimatic1140
in thread IP Address of Person Submitting Log-In Request by Unimatic1140

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