>> It assumes that I have both a windows-based server and cgi access. I have Unix and no cgi (university at buffalo open unix does not let me run cgi scripts, and I can't afford the space to have this page haniging around on my cs account! <<

No it doesn't. The example uses a dynamic page, but you could just as
soon use a static page instead of the dynamic link. You can pass the
'updated' information as part of the URL if you need to...