thanks jimi...yup, I checked the path to perl and renamed everything to the defaults. No go.

I imagine that it's gotta be an upload problem, as you suggest. I wrote a super simple perl program and uploaded it in ASCII format with the proper paths to perl, and went through all possible permissions from 000 to 777 on it.

it's just a simple helloworld and even that is getting an Internal Server Error 500.

I'm using Fetch for the Mac to upload...I'll see if I can find something else and get back to you.

thanks for your thoughts and consideration,

paqi