ug, apples, i dont use them much, well not since Macintosh when i kept pushing the power button to eject a cd

but i may have found a solution in google. "I changed the permissions of all folders and module I wrote for the script from mstep:staff to root:wheel". i kinda doubted httpd would be in wheel or root. It turns out the group is _www.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2001881/correct-owner-group-permissions-for-apache-2-site-files-folders-under-mac-os-x

sudo chgrp -R _www ~/my/web/root
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To make sure you could compare the group in the normal .../perl/lib

http://serverfault.com/questions/152175/apache-runs-as-which-user-group-under-os-x-10-6

id _www
uid=70(_www) gid=70(_www) groups=70(_www),404(com.apple.sharepoint.gro
+up.3),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),61(localaccounts),12(everyone
+),403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2)
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This matches the 70 seen in your ps -ef result too.

OT: but in regards to apples
I used to work on a IBM 5150 PC with one of these in it.
http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n12/53_The_new_blue_Apple_Quadl.php "a card designed to run Apple software on a PC." It was in a room off a lab with about 30 regular PC's in it and every once in a while some student would wander in looking for an open machine. If it was left in Apple mode (via some key sequence) it would confuse the hail out of them.