tried the system. and no failure messages after 30 screens.
so it seems the problem was a quirk in ppm 2.1.6 which unfixed something that was fixed in apache-asp.
on the positive side of the problem, it did strongly encourage me to look at handlers with modperl. which happened to provide an approach to taking http trafffic at a central site and farming it in very specific ways to other servers.
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