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[csnyder]

Not an answer to your question, but unless you explicitly need to
close the db connection (because your script is running in daemon mode
or something) you can leave out the mysql_close() -- the connection is
closed automatically once execution is finished.

Still, that's perplexing. Do you do anything to $link that would cause
it to be recast as a string or int?