im working on emergeing with the email right now, and so far its awesome. One problem I had was it crapped out because LWP was not installed. should be a dep for xmltv. other than that, its working fine. Many thanks for this!! David -- "I find your lack of faith disturbing." --Darth Vader --- 11:55am up 46 days, 16:47, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00