Thanks, repson - is just what I was looking for.   8^)
Working code + markup below.
    cheers,
    Don
    striving for Perl Adept
    (it's pronounced "why-bick")

(template.pl) 

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

use strict;
use HTML::Template;
use HTML::Entities;
use CGI qw(:all);                   # use CGI::Pretty qw(:all);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);  # debugging only - for production 
+"use CGI::Carp;"
use Time::localtime;
use File::stat;
use vars qw(@urlsA @urlsB);

my $code     = 'template.pl';
my $tmpl     = 'template.tmpl';
my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => "$tmpl");
my %urlhashA = (
      'home'     => '/',
      'sitedocs' => '/doc/',
      );
my %urlhashB = (
      'Perl Monks' => 'http://www.perlmonks.org/',
      'CPAN'       => 'http://search.cpan.org/',
      'Google'     => 'http://www.google.com/',
      'Cisco'      => 'http://www.cisco.com/',
      );

while (my ($name,$url) = each %urlhashA) {
    push @urlsA, {
        nameA => $name,
        urlA  => $url,
        }
    }
$template->param(urlloopA => \@urlsA);

while (my ($name,$url) = each %urlhashB) {
    push @urlsB, {
        nameB => $name,
        urlB  => $url,
        }
    }
$template->param(urlloopB => \@urlsB);

$template-> param(
    codemod  => ctime(stat($code)-> mtime),
    tmplmod  => ctime(stat($tmpl) -> mtime),
    servname => $ENV{'SERVER_NAME'},
    );

print header, $template->output;

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(template.tmpl) 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE><!-- tmpl_var name=servname --></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<!-- tmpl_loop name="urlloopA" -->
  <A HREF="<!-- tmpl_var name="urlA" -->">
    <B><!-- tmpl_var name="nameA" --></B>
  </A>
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<!-- /tmpl_loop -->

<P>
<!-- tmpl_loop name="urlloopB" -->
  <A HREF="<!-- tmpl_var name="urlB" -->">
    <!-- tmpl_var name="nameB" -->
  </A>
  <BR>
<!-- /tmpl_loop -->

<P>
Code update <!-- tmpl_var name=codemod -->
<BR>
Template update <!-- tmpl_var name=tmplmod -->

</BODY>
</HTML>

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In reply to Re: (2) HTML::Template and hash o' links+labels (Graci) by ybiC
in thread HTML::Template and hash o' links+labels by ybiC

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