I wanted to say thanks for the ideas and help, learned some new stuff about DBI and tracing. I located the problem, because I had created the text files that my server program uses on my Windows machine then just ported them over to my Gentoo box they had a hidden ^M character at the end of every line that Windows puts in but Linux doesn't see so that is why all the matching failed and the updated failed since the program name in the Hash would never match the program name in the DB. Thanks again, Seth