Well, snot. So all this talk about DBI finally convinced me to give it a shot, and I've ended up right back at the same place I started. Here's what I've got right now:

use strict;
use DBI;
my $db = DBI->connect('DBI:ODBC:myDSN')
    or die "Could not connect to database: " . DBI->errstr;
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and I get squat. Actually, I get the same, "Login failed for user '(null)'" error as before. Now, if I do:

use strict;
use DBI;
my $db = DBI->connect('DBI:ODBC:myDSN','user','passwd')
    or die "Could not connect to database: " . DBI->errstr;
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It works just great. I can fetch data, the sun comes out, etc. So am I missing the blindingly obvious? Is it just not possible to save the Username and Password in the DSN?
I'm going to continue to scour the web for help, but so far every example I've seen hard codes the username and password.

Thanks again,
Ardenstone

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