Didn't you ever heard that sometimes perl can be used for administrative programming, and WMI managing is an example, and this will work for Win2000 and will not for WinNT (there are no such COM objects there) ?
In this case I can suggest you to read some materials to become a bit more knowledgable person.

If you don't know about a possibility this does not mean such possibility does not exists.

Courage, the Cowardly Dog.
PS. I knew I not gonna like this