I tried the following on NT 4.0 with ActiveState 5.005_03. 
if ( @ARGV ) {
    foreach my $i ( 0 .. $#ARGV ) {
        print "ARVG[$i]: ", $ARGV[$i], "\n";
    }
    exit(0);
}
system("perl $0 foo bar");
system('perl ' . $0 . ' "foo bar"');
system("perl $0 foo \"bar baz\"");
system("perl $0 foo \"\"bar baz\"\"");
system("perl", $0, "foo", '"bar baz"');
which yielded 
ARVG[0]: foo
ARVG[1]: bar
ARVG[0]: foo bar
ARVG[0]: foo
ARVG[1]: bar baz
ARVG[0]: foo
ARVG[1]: bar
ARVG[2]: baz
ARVG[0]: foo
ARVG[1]: bar baz
Unless I missed something, this suggests that you may be SOL on getting the doublequotes passed through on NT.

In reply to Re: Re: Quote marks lost in system() calls by dws
in thread Quote marks lost in system() calls by Three-G

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