Yay, thanks!

The version was the problem. I pasted in your posted code, and it gave an error too, so I hit CPAN for an upgrade and viola, it worked. I didn't even think of an error in HTML::Template.

As to why I don't get an error message in the original, not providing a substitution value is not an error, it just swaps out the value with an empty string.

Thanks again, you guys rock.