MD5 hash problem

Hello list, I am having a problem with MD5(). Every time I try to use this function it seems to work, but I get the same results. Below is what I am trying to do. $pass = MD5('$password'); For every password that I store in the database I have found it is the same string of characters no matter what the original $password is. $pass always = 243e61e9410a9f577d2d662c67025ee9 In other words, it looks like the MD5 function is working but not correctly because it is calculating the hash, but is finding the same hash for every string. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am new to the whole list process so if I do or say something wrong please do not hate me. Thanks, Mike ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mike Calvelage Webmaster / Sales Associate Viper Systems vipersystems.biz mikec@vipersystems.biz 419-224-8344 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~