yesss! thanks a ton mrhaw, but I gotta tell ya, after submitting my site and email, putting the key in the inc.php file, I’d thought I’d explore the site a bit more in-depth, shoulda been vice versa, his links page looks like a bot’s link list of drive-by sites in of itself! getting a bit paranoid here

....damn where did I leave my tinfoil helmet?
thanks mrhaw, truly appreciate you taking the time to making the form a bit more secure, the coder’s help in this forum really helps us designers out a hundred fold!