I tried your script on my windows 98 with perl 5.6.1 and apache 1.3.12, and IE 6, and it works for me. I modified only the hardcoded paths.

One tip: instead of just calling die, you ought to print out an error page.

I tried commenting out the line that you say is "doggy". When I do that, I get a little broken image box with the red x in IE. I couldn't figure out any way to make the script hang.