After a lot of playing around with the above code, I ended up scrapping it and going with a Hash of Arrays instead. By doing this, I cut the time it takes to run by 50% (from 2:36 to 1:15). I don't have access to the code itself at the moment, so I will post my final copy of it tomorrow. And to answer fruiture's above reply, the @Messages array was something that I forgot to remove from the code that wasn't used until later on in the program itself.

Update: And as promised, here is the code for the entire program:
#!/opt/perl5/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $Number;
my $ln=@ARGV;
if($ln<1 or $ln>1){ die "A single Store number is required!\n"; }else{
  $Number=sprintf("%03d",$ARGV[0]);
}
## Setup the Search Date ##
my ($day,$month,$year)=(localtime(time-60*60*(12+(localtime)[2])))[3,4
+,5];
$day=sprintf"%02d",$day;
$month=sprintf"%02d",$month+1;
$year=sprintf"%04d",$year+1900;
my $Date="$month/$day/$year";
my $RegDate=qr/$month\/$day\/$year/o;

## Setup and precompile the errorcodes ##
my $err1=qr/Disconnected/o;
my $err2=qr/sopup\.sh/o;
my $err3=qr/switch_sh\.sh/o;
my $err4=qr/Node/o;
my $err5=qr/^NetBIOS/o;
my $err6=qr/Manual/o;
my $err7=qr/Beginning/o;
my $err8=qr/^AUP rejecting duplicate transaction/o;
my $err9=qr/LAN/o;
my @Messages=qw($err1 $err2 $err3 $err4 $err5 $err6 $err7 $err8 $err9)
+;
$/="------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------
--\n";


my $File="Unity$Number.log";
my $RPT=substr($File,0,8);
my $Filepath="/HOST/INDATA/stlog/$File";
my $Rptpath="/HOST/INDATA/stlog/$RPT";

open(FH,"$Filepath")||die"Can't open $File: $!\n";
my (%hash,$count);
$count=1;

while(<FH>){
  chomp;
  my @array=split /\n/;
  foreach my $msg(@Messages){
    if($array[0]=~/^Number/){}else{
      if($array[6]=~$msg & $array[1]=~$RegDate){
        my $ref=\@array;
        $hash{$count}=$ref;
        $count++;
      }
    }
  }## END OF FOREACH STATEMENT ##
}## END OF WHILE STATEMENT ##
close FH;

open(RPT,">$Rptpath")||die"Can't open $RPT: $!\n";
print RPT "Report Date: $Date\n";
print RPT "$RPT\n";
print RPT "============================\n";
foreach my $key(keys %hash){
  for(0..6){
    print RPT "$hash{$key}[$_]\n";
  }
  print RPT $/;
}
close RPT;

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