Nice SSCCE*. You also need a paragraph starter other than =pod in your POD, like:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

=pod

=head1 TITLE

My Documentation

=cut
[download]

this renders fine for me

edit: *: that looked sarcastic on re-read. I meant literally: it's hard to get a shorter, more simple evidence of your problem than that, so great job!

edit 2: thinking about it more... that's not likely to be your culprit, because you said you had more POD than that. If I try something as simple as this,

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

=pod

My Documentation

=head1 TITLE

here

=cut
[download]

... then it also renders. So you can have a plain paragraph at the start, as long as there's one defined paragraph below... I assume you had more POD than that, so, not sure anymore. :-(

edit 3: fix missing semicolons in example code

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