Greetings all,
In the end, I ended up simply using a "system" call within Perl: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use POSIX qw(strftime);
$|++;

my $gmtstring = strftime "%F %H:%I:%S", localtime;
my $filename = "symlinked-iso-file-with-limited-lifetime";

my $arg1 = ('-XP . -type l -cmin');
my $arg2 = ('+15');
my $arg3 = ('xargs rm');
system("/usr/bin/find $arg1 $arg2 | $arg3");

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It's just going to have to do, until I become more proficient in Perl.

Thank you all again, for all your time, consideration, and patience. :)

--chris

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use perl::always;
my $perl_version = "5.12.4";
print $perl_version;

In reply to Re^4: File::Find seems grossly inefficient for performing simple file tasks by taint
in thread File::Find seems grossly inefficient for performing simple file tasks by taint

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