Ryanjohns: It looks like you've dropped this whole thread, in which case a note to that effect would be polite.

If that is not the case, a note about the version of Perl you have available to work with would be helpful:
    perl -v
on the command line (see perlrun for the  -v and all other switches). The Perl version you have is nice to know because, e.g., version 5.10 adds a bunch of neat features, especially regex extensions.