OT, but all of this Windows programming work lately has made me realize how much better it is to run CPAN (and Perl) on Linux. Need Term::ReadKey for this, need Module::Build, need stty, need a different Term::ReadLine plugin, need make, need a compiler, need this environment set up... Ah, Penguins, how do I love thee :) On Linux, stuff just works (TM).
Anyhow, I have a solution now -- thanks everyone!