This is really wierd, since this script was working just fine last week and I can't figure out what I might have done to break it. The CGI script currently generates the main menu fine, but when the user clicks on a button from this main menu, the URL gets modified and the 404 error appears. I do not understand why the URL is getting modified! Please help!

Starting URL in browser window:
"http://www.leucht.com/pabc/pvst-dev/"
(Don't try to go there, it's password protected.)

Tiny snippet of my perl code using CGI module: 

print $myCgi->start_form();
print "<center>\n";
print "<input type=hidden name=\"action\" value=\"StorySubmittal\">";
print "<input type=submit value=\"Story Submittal\">";
print "</center>\n";
print $myCgi->end_form();

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Tiny snippet of HTML Source generated from above perl code (note the %2F's in the action field. Is that correct? I've never looked at the generated HTML code before. It's always just worked!): 

<form method="post" action="%2F.%2Findex.cgi" enctype="application/x-w
+ww-form-urlencoded">
<center>
<input type=hidden name="action" value="StorySubmittal">
<input type=submit value="Story Submittal">
</center>
<div></div></form>

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When the user hits the "Story Submittal" button, the URL in the browser window changes to this:
"http://www.leucht.com/pabc/pvst-dev/%2Fpabc%2Fpvst-dev%2F"
This is obviously not a good URL!

This has never happened to me before in 5 years worth of writing CGI perl scripts! Did I do something stupid and just haven't realized it yet?!? Please help me, I need to get this script working again this weekend! My customers will not be very happy! :-)

Thanks in advance for any help you can give,
Kurt Leucht

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