I received a message from tech saying ....script must be placed in /cgi**print to work. The ** represent two small boxes that I can not type w/ my keyboard.

Nope, that's hardly believable. Perhaps the mail was screwed up. All in all one may think of it as a bad case of "security through obscurity" (which is not security). But no, I can't believe that.

btw, I was writing my scripts with Notepad... thanks

That shouldn't make a difference, unless you hit the "this app may break" bug. But then there's one other thing that may be relevant: line endings. For perl it doesn't make a difference. But you may have problems with the shebang line if the webserver is running under *NIX. Oh, and of course I wouldn't regard it as a particularly friendly editor. But if you're happy with it, then just go ahead and I won't certainly start any flame.