OK, Problem solved. Thanks to all. Flog me for not checking but somehow when i installed IPC::Shareable and NET::FTP+Rexec the install used roots very restricted Umask of 077. Once i tried using the modules from an additional UID (with a fair deal of permissions) this became very clear. Any one have any insight as to why the install did that. I used typical install of "perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install"

Thanks again to all. Dan.