Retrieving Identity Value of newly inserted row

All

I am having a hard time trying to retrieve my identity value from an 
insert statement.  I keep getting a 0 returned.  Here is an example of my 
code:

#insert a record into the note table
$sth=$dbh->prepare(qq{INSERT INTO note(note_typ, usr_id, note_hdln, 
crt_dt, urgnt_ind) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)});

$sth->execute( "note example, "example", "Note", $date, $urgent_ind);
#check to make sure that there was not an error with the sql statement
if($sth->errstr())
{
           $logger->warn("ERROR -- ", $sth->errstr());
           die;
}

sth = $dbh->prepare( 'SELECT @@IDENTITY' );
$sth->execute;
my $row = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref;
my $inserted_id = $row->[0];

Is it a problem with the  '?' as placeholders - Is there a way to retrieve 
the identity value of a newly inserted row?  Any help would be 
appreciated.
Thanks

Robert Gorrebeeck
Concentra Online Services
972.725.6956
[email protected]
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