Originally Posted by VirtuosiMedia

However, it's very important NOT to just insert information you get from a form directly into database. Look up SQL injection attacks and you'll learn about a lot of security problems that you can avoid by sanitizing your data. If you don't do this, your site could be hacked very easily.

I looked up a few articles on this subject and see how this could be a huge problem. Thanks for the tip, I will get into that more a bit leter in the script.
as of right now this form is going to be used only by me...Will adding a password to the web dir so I can keep the form itself from being used by anyone other then myself prevent any such attacks?

Only if people can't get into the directory. You should still escape the data, though, even if you're the only one that's going to use it.