Glad it's working now! :) I assume you took out the first "print $query->header( -cookie=>$cookie );" to fix it? I think you can also safely remove the "-type => 'text/html'," part from the second one. You're not actually outputting any HTML, just redirecting.
U r correct, also I took the ‘-type => 'text/html' out, as u said, and now it works as Perl should be,
hey monk thanks again for this straight forward answer, keep up the good job ;)