in reply to CGI: Having Trouble with HTTP-EQUIV

Not meaning an insult, but you are doing this backward.... the meta http-equiv tag is used to tell your webserver of extra http headers to include in your responce. A standard http responce loosely looks a bit like this. 
200 OK
Content-type: text/html
Refresh: 0
Expires: now

<html><head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0"></head>
<body>document</body></html>

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So instead of generating a meta http-equiv tag you should be generating the header yourself in your header call, something like:
print header( -type => 'text/html', -refresh => '0' );

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