PL/SQL not accepting CREATE TABLE command?!?

Hello all, I am writing some PL/SQL and what I am wanting to do it retrieve values from cursors, do some manipulations and insert it into a table I created in the PL/SQL code, then do a SELECT on the table and spool it out to a file....and finally, drop the table. I get the following error:

ORA-06550: line 3, column 1:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "CREATE" when expecting one of the
following:

   begin declare exit for goto if loop mod null pragma raise    return select update while <an identifier>    <a double-quoted delimited-identifier> <a bind variable> <<    close current delete fetch lock insert open rollback    savepoint set sql commit <a single-quoted SQL string>

Does this mean I cannot create and drop tables from within PL/SQL? I was assuming this was how to do a temporary table....

Any suggestions out there?

TIA!! Kelly
kgrigg_at_acxiom.com

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