Sadly, due to memory constraints in place on the system (I work for a university), I can't run CPAN myself, so I would have to have my boss run CPAN for any modules I need installed, which is a big hassle for both of us. Which is why I was downloading the modules from CPAN online instead of using the CPAN module to install new modules. Each module I was trying to install is a single .pm file, no package, no Makefiles, etc. just a single .pm file.