Without looking at it very closely, this looks very wrong:

open (TEXT,">text.txt");
...
@text=<TEXT>;
[download]

You open test.txt (you should be checking the returns of your opens and any other function that uses the system!) for writing, then you try to read from it. I don't think that's going to work like you want it to, at all.

And in fact what you've done is overwritten what was already in @text. What do you want in @text, anyway? Basically everything in test.txt previously, plus the new stuff?

There are several ways to do this, but one of the simplest is this:

• open test.txt for appending (">>")
• write the new data to it
• close it
• open it for reading
• read all data from it, into @text
• close it

You should also throw in some file locking for both files (test.txt and forum.html)--lookup flock.

And check the return status of your open calls! :)

If this doesn't help, be more specific about what isn't working.