I figured I'd give it a day or so :o) and I will check the HKEYs and the .def tonight when I'm back at the system. It would be nice for someone to track down the actual cause of this difugalty and make a fix. There is a lot of useless info on google as to the actual fix for this issue. Even more disconcerting is the fact that it workks for some and not for others. Why it things I had multiple versions of Perl on my install target is beyond me. This is the first perl install ever on it.-(