Thanks for the reply. I am already using CGI (from my code above I didn't show you that $q-> new CGI();) and I am looking to use CGI::Session b/c I agree that splitting the QUERY_STRING is not the best method. But then again, we all crawled before we ran, right? I'm not a programmer by any means. It is simply by the virtue of the helpful folks here at PerlMonks and countless hours of reading/writing/testing that I am able to perform the minimal Perl/CGI writing that I do. Once I set a cookie, how to I access it from the second page? I'm assuming that if I use the default method for generating a cookie that it's name will be the session ID. So I still have to know what that is to reference the cookie from page two, right? 

my $session = new CGI::Session();
print $session->header();

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