Duped, in essence, by Reaped: Re^3: parsing excel sheet from a perl program, which I created when server burped: I had clicked create on this, after reviewing; but got the Gates, not this page.
This seems to have happened multiple times lately (20100309).
That's great.
Now, give back (or, more precisely) "give ahead" a little help... for the future reader with the same sort of problem: specify which of the above (if any) were useful in reaching your solution.