Thanks, pugdog...I think you have provided some good suggestions to tackle the problem. And the "user management" is done at the front end...email addresses are checked for format when they create or modify an account via the user.cgi script. The only reason I have left the error checking codes in the sub validate_records is to see if the email address is being pulled from the Users table, which it is not. But hopefully with a little more tweaking, I will be able to get it to work...this is really the last obstacle before releasing my new site...well, one of the last obstacles...I still have to fine tune the review.cgi script and a some other small odds and ends...

Yet...this seems to be quite a stumbling block.

Thanks again. I really appreciate it.

Regards,

Eliot Lee