Grinder: Thank you for the pointer to what looks like yet another wonderful tool. I should explain however, that I am trying to do this as an educational/hobbyist experience type of deal. So the end result isn't so much important as learning how to get there =)
My perl knowledge is pretty much all self learned through Oreilly Books, Perlmonks, and painful trial and error. I know this will generate naysayers who will tell me "give up this is too advanced for you" but frankly I don't care. The act of figuring it all out is what is important to me here, not making the greatest piece of software ever or trying to prove I am a great programmer(cus I'm not)