Ahh. I've run into similar problems before. Win32 services are more difficult to debug because you can't see what's going on. What I've done in the past is log errors to a text file. This is fine for development, but in production you probably want to use the Event Log, with Win32::EventLog or Win32::EventLog::Message - I don't have a link, but I think it's another one of Dave Roth's.

I find something along these lines useful:
BEGIN
{
   $SIG{__WARN__} = $SIG{__DIE__} =
       sub {
              open ERRORLOG, ">>/myerror.log" or
                   die "error opening logfile";
              print ERRORLOG, scalar localtime, " - $0\n", @_, "\n\n";
              close ERRORLOG;
           }
}

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I think this would have caught your problem and written it to a log file.

John M. Dlugosz pointed out recently that you can also use Win32::MessageBox from within a Service. So you could replace that logfile with a more immediate and visual prompt.

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