Thanks again, rob_au. I can already see some techniques that I can use, and the comments in the code are very helpful.

And yes, after I wrote my update, I looked at CGI::Application in more detail and realized that it is really not so closely integrated with HTML::Template (perhaps not even enough to be meaningful). I still haven't settled on a templating module (or a framework), but you are right that using any templating module with CGI::Application should be fairly trivial.

Impossible Robot