Cool, glad you like the forums, it reflects my unique world of psychology and programming for the Internet... two things you don't usually see together.

As for your error, your ISP or host should be able to provide you with your server's error logs to help troubleshoot the problem. Without that detailed error message, it's nearly impossible to say what's wrong.

Are you sure the directory you specified ("/pod/") can run cgi-bin scripts in it?
You may want to throw it in your cgi-bin directory and see if it works from there (configuring the script as necessary).