On second thought, I am beginning to see the beauty of

open STDERR, ">", "/path/to/log";
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which I will be coupling this with

open STDOUT, ">", "path/to/log";
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I debug more with print statements than with the perl debugger, so this allows me to see my debugging statements along with the more serious perl complaints to see where my code is acting up.

Thanks again to everyone who enlightened me.

UPDATE: Here's a simple demonstration that may be helpful to newbies.

#errorToOut.pl
use strict;
use warnings;

open STDERR, ">>", "log.txt";
open STDOUT, ">>", "log.txt";

#outputted to stderr
warn "warning!";
#outputted to stdout
print "Test.";

#Log.txt winds up looking like:
#warning! at errorToOut.pl line 9.
#Test.
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