THANK YOU!

I have thought this may have been the case for some time. Literally smashing my head agaist the wall trying to get the simplist scripts working only to find my host given scripts work perfect.
Not having access to Telnet is a real arse. I am currently half way through a tutorial from http://www.softlookup.com
Very informative but lacking some valuable information like what file named and extenstion each script should be and it also relies heavily on a command line testing.

Time to go learn the ways of the Perl Monks!