thankyou thankyou thankyou! &RequireVars on vars_email.cgi fixed me! whew!!!
Lesson learned - next time i get inclined to wrastle a custom script, i'm heading straight to "developers for hire" forum instead of mustering the bravado to kludge-it-myself!
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