I figured it out... instead of doing a push... the way I was doing it:

if($otherBlocksOfCode[0]) {# Already created...
# push the file1.js to this array...
push(@otherBlocksOfCode, {-type=>"text/javascript", -src=>"/path/file1
+.js"});
} else { # No other page created it, so create it now...
my @otherBlocksOfCode;
push(@otherBlocksOfCode, {-type=>"text/javascript", -src=>"/path/file1
+.js"});
}

print start_html(
...

        -script            =>    [@otherBlocksOfCode, {-type=>"text/ja
+vascript", -src => "path/file2.js"}, {-type=>"text/javascript", -src 
+=> "$_js_path"}, {-code=> "$jscript"}],
...
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I just added it this way:

        @_extraJSCode = ({-type=>"text/javascript", -src=>"http://ajax
+.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"},);
# then at the main header, where it is built, I do this:

    if($_extraJSCode[0]) {
        push(@_extraJSCode, {-type=>"text/javascript", -src=>"/path/fi
+le1.js"});
    } else {
        @_extraJSCode = ({-type=>"text/javascript", -src=>"/jsfiles/st
+_utilities.js"});
    }
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and that did work.

so it is resolved.

Richard