hi daveg,

a couple hundred dollars??! ouch! i know nothing about perl, just java, and even that's a little sketchy, but i do like to try to solve problems.

here's a <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/cgi/ch12_01.html>link to a page on O'Reilly.com</A> that may provide some help.

good luck.

splash