I hope you don't mind but I shared this link with tech support at my hosting service so they can see that it does work per se elsewhere, and that when they run the same files on my hosted account it displays the php statement instead of the value.

@Eric My hosting service is asking what version PHP is running on the account you tested my form on.

http://ericrohloff.com/coffeecup/ccforu … ertest.php

Thanks!