Yes, I've searched a number of groups and found several references to this issue but no resolutions. I've contacted the folks who posted the questions in the past and was informed they never got it resolved and switched to TCL over Perl for Tk apps. I've searched through the DOCs and found nothing usefull. Finally did some cleanup by moving some required C header and lib files into local directories and did a reinstall and it now works.
thanks for the help