I am interested in getting a control panel for my server. The one, big problem is I don't have much money to fork out $200 for it. I am a decent programmer in both perl/php and ok in a few others. Are there any free control panels out there that I could download? Thanks in advance for any help.

Try http://www.webmin.com .

Good Luck,
Franc

This looks to be a pretty good system...
I can't wait to give it a try.