Your strace skills are awesome. You and chb are right on the money.

I have never written any CGI that can take this long to send output to the browser. It seems that apache will end the script if the amount of time reaches a thresh hold defined as Timeout in httpd.conf.

I have increased the timeout and everything works great. I also learned about debugging CGI as well. Thanks everyone for your help!

Thanks again,
ghettofinger