I really didn't want to hear that. I haven't experienced any problems with this (yet), but what might I expect to happen? Or am I safe because it's within a BEGIN {} block? I could see it causing problems in the middle of the script, but if it's a one-time switch before anything else happens? 

C:\>Apache -V
Server version: Apache/2.0.48
[snip]
Architecture:   32-bit
Server compiled with....
 -D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/winnt"
[snip]

C:\>perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 2) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
[snip]
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultip
+licity=def
ine
[snip]
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL
+_IMPLICIT_
CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
[snip]

C:\> more c:\apache2\conf\httpd.conf
[snip]
# WinNT MPM
# ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in the server pro
+cess
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum  number of requests a server process se
+rves
<IfModule mpm_winnt.c>
ThreadsPerChild 100
MaxRequestsPerChild  0
</IfModule>
[snip]
LoadFile "C:/Perl/bin/perl58.dll"
LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so
[snip]

C:\> more c:\apache2\www\port80\test.pl
#!c:/perl/bin/perl -w
$|++;

BEGIN { chdir "C:/Apache2/www/port80" }

use strict;
use CGI::Simple;
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