Thanks alot, I guess I'll have to be like everyone else, and say "Window's Version requires XP". :-)

I wonder what it is about older window's versions that causes it?

I was able to get better results on ME, by making a shared HoA, with only a single hashkey, like below, pushing everything in a constant order into the array. But hashes are so much cleaner to use.

my %days;
  foreach my $channel(@chs){
      @{$days{$channel} } = ();
         share $days{$channel};
}

#and load it like 
push @{$days{$channel} }, $channel;
push @{$days{$channel} }, $count;
push @{$days{$channel} }, $channel_info;
push @{$days{$channel} }, $episode_num;
push @{$days{$channel} }, $start;
push @{$days{$channel} }, $stop;
....etc....
...etc...
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