Thanks for the feedback...

I despise having to create a 'GUI' for what I'm doing, as I'd much prefer to leave things cli-only (wouldn't most of us). Although I have no experience or understanding of 'session' regarding HTTP, I'll take a look at what you've suggested, and review the docs for the Session module.

...my question regarding the exploitation of the Perl garbage collection remains however, and it would be interesting to get feedback on that...

-sb