-I did not upgrade perl. somebody else did. I will ask when they come back around. I believe it was with yum.

-most modules were installed with cpan. some modules were given to me through email. those were copied to a directory then  tar -xvf .....

-Here is the output of AutoSplit:

[nac2@localhost /]$ cpan -D AutoSplit
Reading '/home/nac/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:41:02 GMT
AutoSplit
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---
    (no description)
    S/SM/SMUELLER/AutoLoader-5.74.tar.gz
    /usr/local/share/perl5/AutoSplit.pm
    Installed: 1.06
    CPAN:      1.06  up to date
    Steffen Mueller (SMUELLER)
    smueller@cpan.org
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