As for doing this strictly with SQL, I talked to a couple people and they cringed. The information they gave me is that without using ADO, @@IDENTITY isn't set when you're interfacing MS Access. What they actually do is requery for the record they just inserted and pull the number that way.

As far as using ADO, you're going to make something just as unportable as writing ASP. But if you want to try it, you will infact use Win32::OLE. Example..

use Win32::OLE;

my $rs = new Win32::OLE("ADODB.Recordset");

# you're going to have to define your consts that
# you're using in the vbscript example
$rs.Open('NOTICE', etc.. );
$rs->AddNew();
$rs->{'title'}{'Value'} = $somevalue;
<....>
$rs->Update();
my $last_id = $rs->{'ID'}{'Value'};
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written off the cuff so knowing me there's errors, but that's the basic usage under Win32::OLE.

Hope this helps..
Rich