I agree. As you can see from my replies, I have n number of platforms and n number of systems to work with. I really don't see the sense in updating 2n machines with new versions of Perl and other happy bs, when I can build several executables that everyone can reference.

Furthermore, most of them have no clue about Perl (they think Perl comes from oysters), ..or only enough to be dangerous.
-P0w3rK!d