Yes, my apologies. It turns out I was using an old version of CGI.pm Upgraded and unearthed the upload() function.
Just trolled the apache error logs and can see an error message being generated from mod_perl: 
[client xxx.xx.xxx.xxx] Request content-length of 84482 is 
larger than the configured limit of 75000

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Which probably explains my problem with file upload size :)
Thanks a lot for your help.

*a bit later* Turns out this: 

LimitRequestBody 75000

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was in my httpd.conf file! *slaps forehead*

In reply to RE: RE: RE: Re: File Upload + recording by brett
in thread File Upload + recording "metadata" by ritz0

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