Ok, I went through and ran every line of the code it said to do. on the first line, lwp-download... I got an error saying this:

lwp-download: Aborted
Will not save <http://tjmather.com/Geo-PostalCode_19991101.txt.gz> as 
+"Geo-PostalCode\x5f19991101.txt.gz".
Please override file name on the command line.
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so I did it like this:  wget http://tjmather.com/Geo-PostalCode_19991101.txt.gz then did the rest like it said. I manually saved and uploaded all the installation files from here: http://search.cpan.org/src/TJMATHER/Geo-PostalCode-0.06/

When I uploaded them the files in /t that end with .t somehow ended up with .t.txt file names so I had to rename those.

After all was said and done, I did a test with this code:

    use Geo::PostalCode;
    my ($lat, $lon, $city, $state, $distance, $_record, $_db_dir, $gp,
+ $_zip);
    $_db_dir = "/etc/zip/edgetest";
    $gp = Geo::PostalCode->new(db_dir => $_db_dir) or die "Could not c
+reate a New Instance!";
    $_zip = param("zip");

    $_record = $gp->lookup_postal_code('postal_code' => "$_zip") or di
+e "Could not Lookup Postal Code!";
    $lat   = $_record->{lat};
    $lon   = $_record->{lon};
    $city  = $_record->{city};
    $state = $_record->{state};

    $distance = $gp->calculate_distance(postal_codes => ["$_zip",'7485
+1']) or die "Could not get distance 3!";

    $postal_codes       = $gp->nearby_postal_codes(lat => $lat, lon =>
+ $lon,
                                                   distance => 50);
     $_page_content .= qq~<br>
    City is ~ . $city . qq~<br>
    State is ~ . $state . qq~<br>
    Latitude is ~ . $lat . qq~<br>
    Longitude is ~ . $lon . qq~<br>
    <br>
    Nearby Zips are: ~ . @$postal_codes . qq~<br>
    <br>
    The Distance from $_zip to US is $distance miles<br>
    <br>~; # $_page_content is printed at the end of
               # the index.cgi file for the
               # content...
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I added the 'die' parts for debugging because it was not working. I am getting this message: Could not Lookup Postal Code! So it is failing at this part of the code:    $_record = $gp->lookup_postal_code('postal_code' => "$_zip") or die "Could not Lookup Postal Code!";

Can you see a reason why this would not be working and failing at that location?

Thanks for any further assistance you can be. I will appreciate any and all advice on the matter.

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