This is great stuff, really cleared it up.

I think I'm close now. My one question is how to set the "value" in the name value pairs to the equivalent of making the param 'on'?

I've done this:

my $webpage = "http://myurl/cgi-bin/search2011.cgi";
my $url = "$webpage?subject=$c_subject; #From earlier declaration alre
+ady posted
print qq(<A HREF="$url">Subject</A>\n)."<br><br>";
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However, since the radio button wasn't clicked, this just a returns an empty search

Should I use this type of thing:

    $query->param('foo','an','array','of','values');
This sets the value for the named parameter 'foo' to an array of value
+s. This is one way to change the value of a field AFTER the script ha
+s been invoked once before. (Another way is with the -override parame
+ter accepted by all methods that generate form elements.)
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