in reply to problems installing modules - ex. DBI

Personally, I'm at a bit of a loss, without a little more information.

Couple of things come to mind;
In detail. What procedure did you use to build/install this module?
Did you tell Perl where you intended to install it

make install PREFIX=/path/to/my/personal/directory
?
When you indicate you have other versions installed. Are they also installed within your home folder?

Any more specifics, that you don't feel are typical of a normal/usual install would help.

Best wishes.

--Chris

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