I gave your two suggestions a try.
The first one gives me an error that possibly MyOverride has not been loaded. The second runs but nothing is populated in the error log. I will change my print STDERR to $r->log->error but I don't think that will fix it because when I wrote some mod_perl that wasn't doing this but still generating errors I used STDERR.
Thanks for your suggestions. I will send out an email to the mod_perl mailing list too.
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BigJoeLearn patience, you must.
Young PerlMonk, craves Not these things.
Use the source Luke.