Yeah, thats what I figured, but it’s just weird that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. But so far my experience is the CGI are very touchy, luckly I never really had to use PERL, I started with PHP 
Yeah, I’m a big PHP fan. The problem is there are so many boxes out there where it isn’t available. This could be because its yet another bit of software to administer or perhaps PHP just isn’t a decent solution. Either way, we’re stuck with CGI 
Its not so bad when you get used to it
The reason your uploaded cgis dont behave consistantly is because your uploading in binary mode, instead of ascii. All scripts should be uploaded in ascii mode so it will automatically adjust the newline-char.