My $date output is in the foreach loop
$date
09/25/11, 02/13/11, 09/15/10, 06/11/10, 04/13/10, 04/13/10, 04/13/10, 09/24/09, 02/19/09, 12/21/
You don't have the century in your date, try to convert it like this:
format('Y-m-d'); print $date;
Prints:
2011-09-25
Now you can insert $date into MySQL.