Thank you. This was a good suggestion.

What I've actually done is something that Abigail-II
suggested: I'm running the scripts from my own crontab,
thus bypassing my co-worker's crontab woes. This actually
makes more sense anyhow, since I own the perl files.

Anyhow, from my own crontab things run just fine.
Permissions and paths all appear to be fine... at least
I'm getting the expected output now.

-Rob
(maybe I'm not even at the user-level of proficiency, eh?)
(it's been one of those weeks)