Yes - the INST_FILEs really do exist with permissions 755 :)
There are... but I'm referencing the right version (I am defaulted to 5.8.8)
There is no PERL5LIB environment variable specified... should one always be specified?
It turned up another file where the permission was restricted for non-root user -- /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod -- should this be corrected as well?
And, did you mean to swap the permissions around? Looks like it's the same two find commands repeated twice(?) I can see these commands being very helpful, so thanks again :)