princepawn,

To respond to your question about displaying a mode based a single parameter-- There has been a recent addition to CGI::Application to make it more flexible in this regard. Look for mode_param() in the documentation-- You can now set the run mode based on the return value of a subroutine, which you can of course do most anything with.

I'm on the verge of releasing an application based on this framework, called Cascade

-mark