I double checked that and made sure, apparently the -- forces the path from what they told me at my host. One of the people working on it said "Initially this was an suexec error... it being enabled gives "premature end of script headers" on cpanel machines, but with it disabled I get this: Thu Apr 29 19:47:45 2004] [error] [client 12.96.160.84] file permissions deny server execution: /home/vhfansco/public_html/cgi-bin/wtest.cgi
[Thu Apr 29 19:47:45 2004] [error] [client 12.96.160.84] File does not exist: /home/vhfansco/public_html/403.shtml"
Then he changed permissions or recompiled something and now my entire site is down with 500 Internal Server errors, even threads and I don't know if he left for the day or what

Time to give them a call I think.