If you are using ActiveState Perl then you may as well download and install the ppm packages when they are available and use self-compiled modules from CPAN only when necessary. It will save you a lot of compiling related woes and get your project going faster. It will also be easier to support power users who have decided to have their own Perl installs.

Take a look at the ActiveState site and search the mailing lists for perl network installation for various discussion about a network install. By the looks of things, the latest versions of AS Perl have a much cleaner install than earlier ones.

You will also want to add a file association for .pl files using the assoc command.