Let this be a lesson to me to check for newer releases of a module before bringing up issues of things not working correctly. This problem exists in the version 0.06 I had installed. An upgrade to 0.071 fixed everything just dandy. From the CHANGES file that comes with 0.07 (which is incidentally more or less the exact same as 0.071 - versioning problems):

mod_perl compliant, patched by Mathew Albright