Have you tried using a combination of PerlOptions +Parent and PerlSwitches -I in your VirtualHost directives?
Update: You might want to read this and this.
In reply to Re: Scope of @INC in mod_perl 2
by WizardOfUz
in thread Scope of @INC in mod_perl 2
by atemon
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