Merry Day fine monks!

I am trying to read CPU stats from windows machines using Win32::OLE to get at the nasty bits. The recommendation for this task is not to keep creating a wmi object for each look, but to create a refresher and make a refreshable object to peek at the stats: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/aa393026(v=vs.85).aspx . My test code followeth...

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use Win32::OLE;

my $refresher = Win32::OLE->CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemRefresher
+")
    or die "Failed to Create refresher object ". Win32::OLE->LastError
+() ."\n";

my $wmi = Win32::OLE->GetObject("winmgmts://./root/cimv2")
    or die "Failed to get object ". Win32::OLE->LastError() ."\n";

# not sure we need this but I tried
$wmi->Security_->Privileges->AddAsString( 'SeDebugPrivilege', 1 ); 

my $refreshable = 
   $refresher->AddEnum($wmi,"Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process"
+)
    or die "Could not get refreshable item ". Win32::OLE->LastError() 
+."\n";

$refresher->Refresh();
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And giveth an error:

C:\Documents and Settings\1161732\Perltest>scratch.pl
Could not get refreshable item OLE exception from "SWbemRefresher":

Access denied

Win32::OLE(0.1709) error 0x80041003
    in METHOD/PROPERTYGET "AddEnum"

C:\Documents and Settings\1161732\Perltest>
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I testing on XP in a dosbox that is run as administrator.

Any ideas other than walking the cursed path that is VB? A Google found others with the same error and no resolution other that that it may be a 64/32 bit issue. This machine is 32bit all the way so that can not be the one.

Cheers,
R.