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in reply to Help with getpwnam - and what it returns..

Maybe just a cut-and-paste typo, but...:

$conf{project} = &AskQuestion("What is the base project for this project", "c",

appears to be missing an element, a closing paren, and a semicolon. Perhaps that accounts for the syntax error ?