Hmm ... that's both encouraging and disheartening.
Encouraging that this may be a localized (phantom?) problem.
Disheartening in that my application's going on a couple thousand Redhat Linux and Solaris boxes in different locales and I'd hate to have to tell the SA's they've got a problem.
Still, I can't believe only the Solaris 2.6, Solaris 8, and Linux boxes I'm working on have the same problem.
Guess I can try ActivePerl 5.8.6 instead of 5.8.4.