Odds are that if you'd merely answer these questions and carry out the specified steps, you yourself would solve your very own problem without having to come begging for help and pissing off the Net.

Once you have thoroughly investigated ALL  of these matters on your own and then asked your buddy in the next cubicle whether he's seen anything like it, should you find that it's still a problem, then by all means do go ahead and post, but make certain you provide us with plenty of details, including your own answers to all (or at least most) of the questions listed above.

On the other hand, if most of those questions don't even begin to make the least bit of sense to you, then you're already in way over your head. Should this be the case, you'd better hold off on CGI programming for a spell. Go find yourself a local guru and check out some of the many books listed at http://wwwiz.com/books/cgi-perl.html

IM!HO, the Addison-Wesley and O'Reilly books tend to be the most thorough, but there are so many out there that you'd do well to look them over yourself. Remember that thickness needn't imply clarity, completeness, or correctness.

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