in reply to Windows XP && Perl && Sybase

Have you tried to switch to DBD::ODBC? If your installation of Sybase is on Win32, you should have no problem establishing a connection via ODBC. If your installation of Sybase isn't for Windows, it will probably still work out ok though. You should be able to accomplish this simply by switching your connect string to the database (you did use DBI, didn't you?).

Good luck!
MrCromeDome