I'm trying to get the following program to run as root but keep getting the following message when the tie statement executes:

Object does not exist in the data store at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/ Apache/Session/Store/DBI.pm line 93.

The docs are sketchy, so I'm not sure what object it means. What am I missing? The code follows: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
use DBD::mysql;
use Apache::Session::MySQL;
use Apache::Session::Generate::MD5;
use Apache::Session::Store::MySQL;
use Data::Dumper;

my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=$db:host=$host";
my $id = Apache::Session::Generate::MD5::generate();
my $store = new Apache::Session::Store::MySQL;
print Dumper( $id, $store );

#if you want Apache::Session to open new DB handles:
my %session_hash;
tie %session_hash, 'Apache::Session::MySQL', $id, {
    DataSource => 'dbi:mysql:$db',
    UserName   => $user,
    Password   => $password,
    LockDataSource => 'dbi:mysql:$db',
    LockUserName   => $user,
    LockPassword   => $password,
};

print Dumper( \%session_hash );

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TIA

In reply to Problem using apache::session::store::mysql by Anonymous Monk

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