The meat of the program is working like a charm and does not use CGI.pm. To convert it would mean days and days of work that I don't have time for...I agree that CGI.pm is very cool, but we didn't get it approved for installation until I'd gotten most of the project working.
I hate to think that I can get a database flatfile script to work....XORing passwords and validating entries without CGI.pm but can't get a simple cookie to set ?