Yes, I'm aware of the local copy within ActivePERL. I have used it on occassion. I just wanted to bring your attention to the dead link.
I think I'm going to put my initial code up on my site shortly, then put the more optimized code with hash tables up later. My biggest concern at this point is that I have almost no clue about software version control. I guess my first copy will be v 0.01 :)