thanks everyone, that's kind of what I expected. I asked a guy at work about this and he said that it is because we are using eperl in our application, and that is the latest version of perl that it can work with. I know we have 2 versions of perl on this machine. If I compile this module with the new version, I could probably get it installed, but I assume it will crash when we use the web app and the old version, correct? Also, does anyone have any suggestions about an updated version of eperl, or something that could replace it?