Thanks to everyone that resonded. I will have to spend some time reading the information that you've provided.
To Fredrik, unfortunately yes. I saw the examples, but couldn't get my head wrapped around their purpose. Perhaps it's due to the fact that my only experience with programming is PHP, Perl and Python and to my knowledge only Python supports decorators (though it could be that I just didn't encounter them until I came across Python). -- Jerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list