thank you wims, i understand what you are saying about the security. i am just not familiar with those scripts yet, so its something id have to play around with to get it to work right. thats why i want to fix this error, before moving on to create new ones for me to debug

. its been hard enough trying to figure out how to get the code working properly. but thru trial and error, i managed to figure out how to get it to recognize the matched text in all 3 files. i will add the mentioned security scripts into place right after i check if my script looks for the proper prefix. thank you again wims.