Well, last night I managed somehow to completely delete the program which was having the problem. So I'm going to have to re-construct it from my back-ups. :-( Just wait - it'll work perfectly now! :-( *sigh* I guess I should be happy but I really wanted to know what was the matter with it. :-/ ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch