most of the problems were due to long strings of ============= >>>>>>>>>>>> and <<<<<<<<<<<<< that had not been commented it out. Once I commened all of these out it seems to work however I still get a messae n the error log which reads: [Wed Aug 11 03:23:54 1999] cust_main.cgi: Use of uninitialized value at (eval 10 ) line 5.