Just an fyi - you should have a use strict;, a use warnings; and you can use CGI to write your HTML for you. Observe.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI ':all';
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
########################

our $PATH     = "/home/foo/www/dir";

{
    my @files =
        sort
        grep /html$/,
        glob $PATH;
    
    print
        param() ?
        selection_report( @files ) :
        selection_list( @files );
    
    exit;
}

sub selection_report {
    return
        header_template()
        . center( h3( 'Finished...' )
                  . "You selected: "
                  . join(", ", param('files') ) )
        . footer_template();
}

sub header_template {
    return
        header()
        . start_html( -title   => 'MY SIMPLE FILE SELECTOR',
                      -bgcolor => '#ffffff',
                      -text    => '#000000',
                      -link    => '#000000',
                      -vlink   => '#000000',
                      -alink   => '#000000' );
}

sub footer_template {
    return
        br()
        . a( { href => 'javascript:history.back()' },
             'Go Back...' )
        . small( small( '...' ) )
        . end_html();
}

sub selection_list {
    my @files = @_;
    
    return
        header_template()
        . center( h2( 'MY SIMPLE FILE SELECTOR' )
                  . br()
                  . br()
                  . small( b( "The following [$#files] files were foun
+d in the [$PATH] directory." ) ) )
        . br()
        . br()
        . table( div( { -align => 'center' },
                      center( table( { -width => 246 },
                                     Tr( td( { -align => 'left',
                                               -width => 312 },
                                             start_form( -method => 'P
+OST' )
                                             . li( { -type => 'square'
+ },
                                                   font( { -size => 2 
+},
                                                         i( 'Select fi
+les' ) )
                                                   . br()
                                                   . map( b( checkbox_
+group( 'files',
                                                                      
+       $_ ) ),
                                                          @files) )
                                             . p( submit( -name => 'cr
+eate_list',
                                                          -value => 'C
+reate' ) )
                                             . end_form()
                                             ) # </td>
                                         ) # </tr>
                                     ) # </table>
                              ) # </center>
                      ) # </div>
                 ) # </table>
        . footer_template();
}
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