IT WORKED. Thanks!!!!!!
You were correct about the Register Globals. On the site the script was working on they were turned ON. On the site I was having difficultly with, they were consequently turned OFF.
It actually only worked when I named the files $_GET['userEmail'] and $_GET['state']. For some reason it didn't work with the post attributes in the html form and php processing file.
Anyway~ thank you VERY MUCH for the time I really appreciate you shedding some light on this for me.