It is a CGI script. Is a message board system for web masters. It is installed from a setup script and they choose what database to use, flatfile, mysql, mssql, ect. And depending on what database they use the program uses a differant .pm file. I am trying to avoid having the users install extra modules. It already is using the DBI module. I see in your above exampe that the $driver scaler is set to ODBC, is that also useing the DBD::ODBC module?