> I know ther has to be an easy way to do this, but I'm getting > more confused the more I try to figure it out. I ususally look to see if some other programmer has already solved my problem before I start to work on it. Sometimes this saves me a bunch of time. http://www.hotscripts.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?bool=AND&query=guestbook&catid= 2 I found a bunch of 'guestbook' (roughly what you described) scripts on hotscripts.com that you might want to check out. jpc