I'm having a problem calling a function so to prove that I have the module figured out (granted I'm a novice PERL gent) I put two functions in the following code. The first one works, the second function call works but the return code is not what I am expecting "0" and I could get a -1 or -2. What I am getting for a return code is 1949630464 which really baffles me.... Thanks for the suggestion BrowserUK, I cleaned up the code, unfortunatly still no luck. 
use Win32::API;
use strict;
use warnings "all";

#  MessageBox API - Reference:  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/libra
+ry/ms712455.aspx
#  int MessageBox(      
#      HWND hWnd,
#      LPCTSTR lpText,
#      LPCTSTR lpCaption,
#      UINT uType
#  );

my $hwndOwner = 0;
my $LpszText = "Message Box Text";
my $LpszTitle = "Message Box Title";
my $uStyle = 0;    #define MB_OKCANCEL                 0x00000001L

my $fnMessageBox = new Win32::API("user32", "MessageBox", 'NPPN', 'I')
+;
my $call1ret = $fnMessageBox->Call($hwndOwner, $LpszText, $LpszTitle, 
+$uStyle);
print "MessageBox Return Code: ".$call1ret."\n";


#  SQLAllocHandle API - Reference:  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/l
+ibrary/ms712455.aspx
#  SQLRETURN SQLAllocHandle(
#       SQLSMALLINT     HandleType,
#       SQLHANDLE     InputHandle,
#       SQLHANDLE *     OutputHandlePtr);


my $HandleType = 1;
my $InputHandle = 0;
my $OutputHandlePtr = '';
my $fnSQLAllocHandle = new Win32::API("odbc32", "SQLAllocHandle", 'PPP
+', 'I');
my $call2ret = $fnSQLAllocHandle->Call($HandleType, $InputHandle, $Out
+putHandlePtr);
print "?? ".$^E."\n\n";
print "SQLAllocHandle Return Code: ".$call2ret."\n";

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