razorbladebidet is right about it, the script is indeed to primitive to understand your great and high evolved mind.
Better use C# or Java to do this.

update ah, now i understand, you want a simple and easy solution to solve the problem.
well, that's indeed clear what derby said. the rights of either the server or the scripts aren't correct. are you using apache with suid on? please provide some more info to exactly pin-point the problem.