I have a CGI script that has been working fine for several months on an intranet (ActiveState, NT). After upgrading perl to 5.6, the script no longer works... the problem is that I think cookies are not getting set properly. As I didn't change any code, I suspect the problem rests with the new perl or the new CGI module... Anyone have any suggestions on this?

code snippet: 
my $user = $q->remote_user;
my $password = "password"; # doesn't matter

if ($user ne "" and $password ne "") {
    my $access = &authorize($user,$password);
    my $c_a = $q->cookie(-name=>'access',
             -value=>$access,
             -expires=>$expires);
    my $c_u = $q->cookie(-name=>'user',
             -value=>$user,
             -expires=>$expires);
    print
    $q->header(-cookie=>[$c_a, $c_u]) .
    $q->start_html(-title=>"R3: login", -style=>{-code=>&css()}) .
    "<h1>Welcome to R3!</h1><h2>Hello, $user.<h2><h3>You have access l
+evel $access and are logged in for $expires.<br>Have a nice day.</h3>
+" .
    $q->end_html;
    exit(0);

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