D'OH! You got me. Thanks for not penalizing me on that. I guess embarrassment could probably be considered punishment enough. :)
I'll update the OP

Thanks LanX. That's a good flow of logical deduction, ya got there.

--Chris

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use Perl::Always or die;
my $perl_version = (5.12.5);
print $perl_version;