You seem to have a point... i have no idea how this happened, but apparently the File.pm in my libs was/got corrupted.

I'm not the only one on the server, but the list is extra-short, so i know where to look... ;-)

I've deleted and restored, and now v0.95 works peachy, both with the test case and my original CGI script (which was unchanged).

Anyhow, thanks again for your help/attention! It makes me glad to know that there wasn't/isn't a 'real' issue with Tie::File.