ok, here is the page source code (or at least the relevant parts):

<tr><td class="xsmall" nowrap="1"><img src="/images/spacer.gif" height
+="1" width="12" /><a class="nobold" href="/gs/portal/services/cas/">G
+lobal Client Access</a></td></tr>
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This is the link I want to follow. preceding code:

<table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">

        <!-- NOTE: this row enforces the minimum width of 280px per co
+lumn for site map -->
        <tr>
            <td width="280"><img alt="" src="/images/spacer.gif" width
+="280" height="1" /></td>
            <td width="1"><img alt="" src="/images/spacer.gif" width="
+1" height="1" /></td>
            <td width="280"><img alt="" src="/images/spacer.gif" width
+="280" height="1" /></td>
            <td width="1"><img alt="" src="/images/spacer.gif" width="
+1" height="1" /></td>
            <td width="280"><img alt="" src="/images/spacer.gif" width
+="280" height="1" /></td>
        </tr>

        <tr>


            <td valign="top" width="34.0%">
                <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpad
+ding="2">


                <!-- display the site map header and site map -->
                <tr class="sitemapTopNodesHeader">
                    <td nowrap>
                        <img src="/images/spacer.gif" height="1" width
+="5" />

                        <b><span class="medium">Home</span></b>
                        <img src="/images/spacer.gif" height="1" width
+="5" />
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <!-- display the site map -->

                <tr><td class="xsmall" nowrap="1"><img src="/images/sp
+acer.gif" height="1" width="12" /><a class="nobold" href="/gs/portal/
+home/">Home</a></td></tr>


                <tr>
                    <td><img src="/images/spacer.gif" height="10" widt
+h="1" /></td>
                </tr>


                <!-- display the site map header and site map -->
                <tr class="sitemapTopNodesHeader">
                    <td nowrap>
                        <img src="/images/spacer.gif" height="1" width
+="5" />
                        <b><span class="medium">Services</span></b>

                        <img src="/images/spacer.gif" height="1" width
+="5" />
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <!-- display the site map -->
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I have tried everything I can, but I havent been able to get the link with $mech->follow_link, click, click_button, submit, or get. Any advice for how I can even get the link? It appears as a normal link in the browser, but when i save the $res to an output file, the link appears as file:///tmp/foo.html/gs/portal/services/cas instead of the actual link.

I don't see any javascript in what you posted. But if you do post a bunch of javascript, I'm not going to look at it. A simple Mech form submit is just not going to cut it here. Figure out what you need to submit and submit it (URL/form and hidden fields, etc.). Or maybe try one of the other modules I mentioned (but don't ask me how to use them).

You're probably going to get much better responses if you show the Perl code you tried, not just the HTML you're trying to work with.

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I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code

Yes, probably there is some way.

But we at the monastery have broken the last crystal ball yesterday so it is difficult to see from here (1) your code (2) the js code and (3) the error returned.