While we're here, sulferic, you might want to note that you can use other characters than / when doing "$x =~ s///" -- you can use # or ! or | and so on, which makes it a lot easier when replacing involves HTML. Also you seem to be under the impression that you need to escape HTML brackets and quotes with preceding slashes, but you don't. Your line: 
$message =~ s/:\)/\<img src=\"$imagedir\/smiley.gif\"\>/g;

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could just be 
$message =~ s#:\)#<img src="$imagedir/smiley.gif">#g;

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or 
$message =~ s{:\)}
             {<img src="$imagedir/smiley.gif">}g;

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In reply to Re: same database problem by Cody Pendant
in thread same database problem by sulfericacid

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