I wrote a script that scrape information off staples.com and I'm getting different results if I run it stand alone or I fork the script. running the script stand alone I get the expected results and when forking the script it seems like it ignores the <title> tag. any help is appreciated: this is part of the script:

sub GetStaples {
        my $oem_PN = $_[0];
        my $ItemDesc = $_[1];
        my @ItemDesc = split(',',$ItemDesc);
        my $Item;
        my $price;
        my $description;
        my $type;
        my $title;
        my $numofitems;
                 my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck => 1, cooki
+e_jar =>
undef);

                 $agent->get("http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores
+/servlet/home?
&langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051");
                 $agent->form_name("headerSearchForm");
                 $agent->field("searchkey",$oem_PN);
                 $agent->click();
                 my $stream = HTML::TokeParser->new(\$agent->{content}
+);

                 open(OUTFILE, ">>output.html") or die "Can't open out
+put.txt: $!";
                 print OUTFILE $agent->content();
                 close(OUTFILE);
                 my $tag = $stream->get_tag("title");
                 $title = $stream->get_trimmed_text("/title");
                 print "Title:".$tile."\n";
                 if ($title !~ /that was easy/){......................
+..
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and this is how I fork the script

                                $pidStaples=fork();
                                        die "Cannot fork: $!" if (! de
+fined $pidStaples);
                                        if (not defined $pidStaples) {
                                                print "esources not av
+ilable.\n";
                                        } elsif ($pidStaples == 0){

                                                GetStaples($ref->{OEM_
+PartNum},$ref->{Description});
                                                exit(0);
                                        }
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the parameters are being passed successfully and if you noticed I've created an outputfile.html to debug the agent- >content and it comes back as expected. even with that I can's get $title back

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May 04, 2008 at 17:17 UTC Janitored by McDarren: Added code tags