i ftped the zip file over to a temp dir and unpacked it on the linux machine during a telnet session. Then just copied the files to where they needed to go and chmod'ed as needed (all during telnet sessions). I am using apache ver 1.3.14. I am starting to think that the problem lies somewhere in my setup of the webserver. Is there any other cgi script functions that I can try to help figure out what cgi function isn't working. Hello world seems to work fine.