As it turns out upgrading to 3.04 did not change the error. The problem lay in the fact that we had an older copy of CGI::Util in our lib so RTFM wouldn't have solved this. TA jg
_____________________________________________________ "The man who grasps principles can successfully
select his own methods. The man who tries methods,
ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson