Apparently Win32::OLE is not thread-safe or am I missing something? The curious thing is that all I am doing is pulling it in, if I comment out the "use Win32::OLE" statement everything is fine. It is somewhat disconcerting that a module that instantiates COM is having a problem w/ this. I am using ActiveState perl 5.8.0 build 805 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use 5.008;
use threads;
use strict;
use Win32::OLE;

my $thr = threads->new(\&sub1);
my @data = $thr->join();

sub sub1 {
    print "INFO: In sub\n";
    return "Fifty-six", "foo", 2;
}

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This produces the following:
"Free to wrong pool 15dcf98 not 15d24f8 during global destruction"

--ERick

In reply to threading and Win32::OLE by ebodine

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