Ok, thanks very mucho for your support so far. On that note...

I'm a bit of a newb to all this. I know my way around, but perl confuzzles me. I searched for a program called ppm on my computer, found it, and ran it. Tried typing 'install dbi' as that seemed to be what google instructed me to do. Got the following message:

ppm> install dbi
Error: No valid repositories: Error: 500 Can't connect to
ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (connect: Unknown error)

Perhaps I'm typing in something wrong or there is an easier way?

And as for mysql drivers I again must claim ignorance. I'll google it when I wake up, but if it's easy to explain, it'd be a tremendous help.