Sorry to come back to this post only now, I thought I already answered this morning! I even added the emacs and cperl version as an update... on another post :)

The only problem I have with pod colorising in cperl is that it's quite slow to be triggered, but it works well for me. I'm running emacs 21.2.2 (Slackware 9 default) with the standard provided cperl.