Well, this was definately the related problem.

I changed the ftype to the full path to perl.exe, and hey presto, it works as expected:

ftype perl=D:\perl\bin\perl.exe %1 %*
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Ever feel dumb? I sure do! I even wrote a tutorial on this! Doh!
Thanks for the help!

ibanix

$ echo '$0 & $0 &' > foo; chmod a+x foo; foo;