Hello, Well after two weeks of posting that socket issue up on this site, one member came forward with the following info: Set in httpd.conf ThreadsPerChild 1 This problem should go away. Its a bug I ran into for the first time a few years back, and seems to have to do with any network sockets that you might open. See http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/crestehtwimp/35970707.7BBCB1F4@a lumni.stanford.org for my original post on this, showing our similar plights! This fixed the problem, so maybe the next guy that runs into this won't have to go through the same issues as I had. Scott Purcell