Python. Not you Saint
Yeah anyway, I've spent tonight looking for a scripting language to use apart from perl (because regex makes me dizzy) and I think I have found it. Python is by far the easiest language I have learnt since perl, and I am starting to see that it is a rather powerful one too. For anyone interested:
http://honors.montana.edu/~jjc/easytut/easytut/
Is a good beginners tutorial in python, and before you ask yes it is possible to make games with it:
http://www.pygame.org/news.html
And yes it is capable of making an MMORPG. Theres even an OpenGL library floating around for it somewhere. Any questions, just ask

I hope some of you give it a go, you wont regret it.