diff --git a/agc_2-X/trunk/bin/ADMIN_area_code_populate.pl b/agc_2-X/trunk/bin/ADMIN_area_code_populate.pl
index 0a01c2bb..8e35ca76 100644
--- a/agc_2-X/trunk/bin/ADMIN_area_code_populate.pl
+++ b/agc_2-X/trunk/bin/ADMIN_area_code_populate.pl
@@ -9,22 +9,63 @@
 # CHANGES
 # 60615-1514 - Changed to ignore the header row
 # 60807-1003 - Changed to DBI
+#            - changed to use /etc/astguiclient.conf for configs
 #
 
+
+# default path to astguiclient configuration file:
+$PATHconf =		'/etc/astguiclient.conf';
+
+open(conf, "$PATHconf") || die "can't open $PATHconf: $!\n";
+@conf = <conf>;
+close(conf);
+$i=0;
+foreach(@conf)
+	{
+	$line = $conf[$i];
+	$line =~ s/ |>|\n|\r|\t|\#.*|;.*//gi;
+	if ( ($line =~ /^PATHhome/) && ($CLIhome < 1) )
+		{$PATHhome = $line;   $PATHhome =~ s/.*=//gi;}
+	if ( ($line =~ /^PATHlogs/) && ($CLIlogs < 1) )
+		{$PATHlogs = $line;   $PATHlogs =~ s/.*=//gi;}
+	if ( ($line =~ /^PATHagi/) && ($CLIagi < 1) )
+		{$PATHagi = $line;   $PATHagi =~ s/.*=//gi;}
+	if ( ($line =~ /^PATHweb/) && ($CLIweb < 1) )
+		{$PATHweb = $line;   $PATHweb =~ s/.*=//gi;}
+	if ( ($line =~ /^PATHsounds/) && ($CLIsounds < 1) )
+		{$PATHsounds = $line;   $PATHsounds =~ s/.*=//gi;}
+	if ( ($line =~ /^PATHmonitor/) && ($CLImonitor < 1) )
+		{$PATHmonitor = $line;   $PATHmonitor =~ s/.*=//gi;}
+	if ( ($line =~ /^VARserver_ip/) && ($CLIserver_ip < 1) )
+		{$VARserver_ip = $line;   $VARserver_ip =~ s/.*=//gi;}
+	if ( ($line =~ /^VARDB_server/) && ($CLIDB_server < 1) )
+		{$VARDB_server = $line;   $VARDB_server =~ s/.*=//gi;}
+	if ( ($line =~ /^VARDB_database/) && ($CLIDB_database < 1) )
+		{$VARDB_database = $line;   $VARDB_database =~ s/.*=//gi;}
+	if ( ($line =~ /^VARDB_user/) && ($CLIDB_user < 1) )
+		{$VARDB_user = $line;   $VARDB_user =~ s/.*=//gi;}
+	if ( ($line =~ /^VARDB_pass/) && ($CLIDB_pass < 1) )
+		{$VARDB_pass = $line;   $VARDB_pass =~ s/.*=//gi;}
+	if ( ($line =~ /^VARDB_port/) && ($CLIDB_port < 1) )
+		{$VARDB_port = $line;   $VARDB_port =~ s/.*=//gi;}
+	$i++;
+	}
+
+# Customized Variables
+$server_ip = $VARserver_ip;		# Asterisk server IP
+
+
 use Time::HiRes ('gettimeofday','usleep','sleep');  # needed to have perl sleep in increments of less than one second
 use DBI;	  
 
-### Make sure this file is in a libs path or put the absolute path to it
-require("/home/cron/AST_SERVER_conf.pl");	# local configuration file
+if (!$VARDB_port) {$VARDB_port='3306';}
 
-if (!$DB_port) {$DB_port='3306';}
-
-$dbhA = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$DB_database:$DB_server:$DB_port", "$DB_user", "$DB_pass")
+$dbhA = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$VARDB_database:$VARDB_server:$VARDB_port", "$VARDB_user", "$VARDB_pass")
  or die "Couldn't connect to database: " . DBI->errstr;
 
 $slash_star = '\*';
 
-	open(codefile, "/home/cron/phone_codes_GMT.txt") || die "can't open /home/cron/phone_codes_GMT.txt: $!\n";
+	open(codefile, "$PATHhome/phone_codes_GMT.txt") || die "can't open $PATHhome/phone_codes_GMT.txt: $!\n";
 	@codefile = <codefile>;
 	close(codefile);
 	$pc=0;