I am just using the standard Makefile that came with the 5.8.8 source. It looks like it uses xcopy to install all of the files. I have heard of xcopy having memory problems, but I figured with any luck it was just something I had set wrong in the Makefile. Here are the last few lines of output before the crash...

        xcopy /f /r /i /d bin\*.bat c:\perl\5.8.8\bin\*.*
0 File(s) copied
        ..\perl.exe -I..\lib ..\installhtml --podroot=.. --htmldir=./h
+tml  --pod
path=pod:lib:ext:utils --htmlroot="file://c|\perl\5.8.8\html"  --libpo
+d=perlfunc
:perlguts:perlvar:perlrun:perlop --recurse
        xcopy /f /r /i /e /d html\*.* c:\perl\5.8.8\html\*.*
File not found - *.*
0 File(s) copied
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\xcopy.EXE' : return co
+de '0x4'
Stop.
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