Aha! Thanks for the tip. Event Viewer says: 

Faulting application name: perl.exe, version: 5.10.1.1007, time stamp:
+ 0x4b5fe845
Faulting module name: Zlib.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4c4bba
+a6
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00009f2a
Faulting process id: 0xcdc
Faulting application start time: 0x01cbace6fc498175
Faulting application path: C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Compress\Raw\Zlib\Zlib.dll

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After checking PPM, it appears that I or the Archive::Zip installation must have updated the Compress::Raw::Zilb module and the zlib.dll to the latest and greatest 2.030 version.
I reverted back to the original 2.024 version of the module and dll and everything works fine now.

In reply to Re^2: Archive::Zip 1.30 crashes ActivePerl 5.10.1 by ateague
in thread [SOLVED] Archive::Zip 1.30 crashes ActivePerl 5.10.1 by ateague

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