This is steve )at( petabit.com again, with a status report on my question.

First, thanks little, it looks like the syntax of the hash indexes isnt the problem though.

Thanks to saint jcwren for trying it out himself and determining that it works fine on ActiveState Perl 5.22, even with my parameters!

I am assuming for now that my problem is ActiveState Perl v5.6.0, or with Win32::FileOp Followups welcome.

Initiate Retrosteve.