Many thanks for your patience and enlightenment :)

I had gone to the "CGI to mod_perl Porting, mod_perl Coding guidelines" before, which had given me some idea about what to expect. But until I actually encountered some of the issues caused by persistence, it was difficult to comprehend the ideas espoused. But I'm getting a better hang of it now than last week. At least now when something doesn't look right, I know where to look for the bug.

Cheers and thanks again!