[jjj0923]

Firefly, thanks for the insight. I dug deeper into the dangerous depths of doom last evening and discovered there was no holy grail in php that would give me what I wanted. I discovered the syntax shown above that binds a template to a variable and discovered that the standardredirect templates merely uses a meta refresh tag, not a lucsious bit of php programming wizardry that I had hoped for.

I am reluctantly resigned to the fact that I will actually have to (he coughs and chokes) duplicate code and"mimick" my vb page header inside an shtml file that can be called by the perl code at the top of every page. The only solace I take in this endeavor is that at least the same shtml file can be called from the perl modules. This does annoy me however since I could do exactly what I want in a java envoriment, but my hosting company does not support JRE.

Oh well - a coding I go.

thanks,

- jeff