First thing I did was download the newest version of Activestate Perl to Windows 7 which is a newer version than I have on my current windows XP machine. Then I just copied (bad idea now since windows is more tight with its permissions as I am finding out with using other programs) over the folder from XP to 7. So yes its partially the permissions factor. I will also go through the perl setup process to determine if MAD was configured automatically when installed on Win 7. Thanks for the comments and suggestions.