Hi, I am trying to save parameters from a form using $query->save, but the first time the script is run, the parameters are not saved, for every subsequent call to the script they are saved. Is there some magic I am missing with this code? 
use CGI;
use HTML::Template;
use HTML::FillInForm;
use CGI::Carp qw(carpout);
use Data::Dumper;

our $q = CGI->new;

my $TData = $q->Vars;        # return value pairs from form
carp "Form values:", Dumper($TData) if $debug > 1;

if ($TData->{'Save'} || $TData->{'Submit'}) {
    if (-e $savefile) {
    open (SFILE, $savefile) || die "cant open $savefile for read\n";
    $old = new CGI(SFILE);
    close SFILE;
    }
}
my $t = HTML::Template->new(filename => $tmplfile, option => 'loop_con
+text_vars');
print $q->header;
print $q->start_html();
$t->param(ROWS => \@Data);
my $html = $t->output;

my $fhtml = HTML::FillInForm->fill(\$html, $q);
print $fhtml, "\n";
print $q->end_html;

my $tmp = $q->Vars; # see if this forces the save to work first time t
+hrough!!
open(SAVEFILE, ">$savefile") || die "$pgm: cant open $savefile for wri
+te\n";
$q->save(\*SAVEFILE);
print SAVEFILE "$pgm: end of current state at $today\n";
close (SAVEFILE);

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