Thanks for all the help, it works great! But there is a little catch (as there is always a little catch): because I used the -w option, it gives me a redefinition warning for each method in that class. I deleted the old class from @INC, and re 'required' it again, as mentioned above, so wouldn't all of the old sub's in that class get deleted as well? (Hence, not stating a redefinition of its subs.)
trick inside of the class, but most of my program is made up of classes, and I don't want to disable warnings.