Solution was found, but it was unwieldy.

Each program used by CPAN, such as wget, lynx, etc.,
has it's own way to talk to a proxy. I had to change each
program config in CPAN's Config.pm.

For example, wget can use --proxy-user=myid --proxy-passwd=mypass
The fun part of that one is that you will NOT find it in the
man page for wget. You will only find it doing wget --help.

For those who need this in the future, I hope this helps.

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