Can you reproduce the problem using a very small amount of code and post that? I'm not sure I understand what you are describing.

Anyway, Perl's global variables are not destroyed in an orderly fashion, so it might help to no store any objects in global variables.

I'll see if I can dig up some old code of mine that demonstrates the problem (or you can www.deja.com to search comp.lang.perl.* for it yourself if you like).

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")