Gossamer Forum: Products: Links 2.0: Customization: Help with Top X on main page (Not Top Y on Ratings)

I think this has been asked before, but I could not find a resolution. What I want to do is put a subset of my Top Rated Sites on my main page, e.g. Top 5 on index.htm, Top 50 on rate_top. What I've done thus far is implement the mod discussed here...
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...um3/HTML/002371.html

... which works fine. I then effectively duplicated the entire subroutine for just the top 5 (or whatever). The changes in my sub build_rate_page in nph_build look like this...

Code:
my (@values, $id, $votes, $rate, @top_votes, %top_votes, @top_rate, @top_incl, %top_rate, @top_incl);  
    $min_vote = 1; 
    $max_list = 5;

and after CLOSE RATE; but before the final }...

Code:
# Rate include 
    open (LINKS, $db_links_name) or &cgierr ("unable to open links database: $db_links_name. Reason: $!"); 
    LINE: while (<LINKS> ) { 
        /^#/      and next LINE;        # Skip comment Lines. 
        /^\s*$/   and next LINE;        # Skip blank lines. 
        chomp;   
        @values = &split_decode ($_);        
        $id     = $values[$db_key_pos]; 
        $votes  = $values[$db_votes]; 
        $rate   = $values[$db_rating]; 
        next if ($votes < $min_vote); 
        if (($#top_incl < $max_list-2) or ($votes > $top_incl[$#top_incl])) { 
            push (@{$top_incl{$votes}}, @values); 
            if ($#top_incl <= $max_list-1) { 
                push (@top_incl, $votes); 
                @top_incl = sort { $b <=> $a } @top_incl; 
            } 
            else { 
                splice (@{$top_incl{$#top_incl}}, 0, $#db_cols); 
                $#{$top_incl{$#top_incl}} or delete $top_incl{$#top_incl}; 
                delete $top_incl{$top_incl[$#top_incl]-$id}; 
                $top_incl[$#top_incl] = $votes; 
                @top_incl = sort { $b <=> $a } @top_incl; 
            } 
        } 
    } 
    close LINKS; 

    $top_votes_incl = ''; 

    foreach (sort { $b <=> $a } @top_incl) { 
        $seen{$_}++; 
        %link = &array_to_hash ($seen{$_} - 1, @{$top_incl{$_}});       
  $top_votes_incl .= qq~<TR><td><a href="$build_detail_url/$link{'ID'}$build_extension">$link{'Title'}</a></td><TD ALIGN="RIGHT" WIDTH=30 NOWRAP>$link{'Votes'}</TD></tr>\n~; 
    } 
  open (RATE_INCLUDE, ">$build_ratings_path/rate_include$build_extension") or &cgierr ("unable to open top rated page: $build_ratings_path/rate_include$build_extension. Reason: $!"); 
    print "\tInclude Vote Range: $top_incl[0] .. $top_incl[$#top_incl]\n"; 
    print RATE_INCLUDE &site_html_ratings_include; 
    close RATE_INCLUDE;

Well, this doesn't pull in the links as expected... any help would be greatly appreciated!