Well, it seemed my netscape was just acting funky in conjunction with a ****ty hard drive. That problem is solved when I put in a new hard drive running at ata100.. strange..
Anyway, I took the coding of Who's Online out of forum summary and the views seem to work fine now. Yes, there was an obvious conflict between the two scripts, I just don't know how to code a fix for it. Hopefully that'll be solved at some point... I don't know perl very well