Reposting here..first post got truncated.

Cheers Hofmator! I had no idea it was enclosed in the Perl core.

For my self-education, is there a way to discover if a particular module is included in the core? Sort of like a database "query" on an core module?

Funny how the answer was right under my nose. Apparently, the answer wasn't evident to a tech who helped me...:

(snippet from techie e-mail)

If you are using ActivePerl build 633 or better, you should be able to install this module using PPM3.

(end snippet)

Thanks again all!