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in reply to Passing things back to the script! Novice needs help

I'm not sure why you don't want to use hidden form fields, but there are some methods in CGI.pm that let you save state to a file, then initialize a new CGI object from that file. Perhaps this might help?
perldoc CGI
Look up "Saving the State of the Script to a File".