database hell

Hi We have a program that manages users, throughout all database calls created as: $connect = mysql_connect($db_host--other variables); mysql_query("Delete from clients where id=$User"); All this works good, but, we need, in the delete function to delete from another database $connmy=mysql_connect("host","user","pass"); mysql_select_db("vsq",$connmy); mysql_query("DELETE from userprefs where clientr='$User'"); $mysql_close($connmy); this fails, unless we use a mysql_close prior to it, and then reconnect to original database after we run this delete, how can we get around this without closing and reopening? We have a perl script doing similar for manual runs, and it works well knowing that $connmy is not $connect, I'm sure there is a simple way to tell php but I'm darned if I can see it. Thanks Niki