Please post output you get when you are tring to install it. It is hard to say what's wrong with installation without this information. If you are unsure what parts of output are important post all output.
Thanks for the concern. In short I'm trying to do something that's really over my head. I think I'm going
to curb this project for now, maybe pick up some books and see what experience can be gleaned from simpler, more achievable goals. And Amazon has a neato $60 Programming Perl/Perl Cookbook combo!
Hopefully I'll learn a bit and be back here someday. Thanks, Mark