in reply to unix file permissions? or perhaps something that will make me look silly...

You might want to consider checking the return from mkdir():

unless( -d "$config{basepath}/$key" ) { mkdir( "$config{basepath}$key", 0777 ) or oops( "can't make category directory $key: " . $! ); }
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