That code runs without problems for me: WinXPpro SP2 + IE 6.0.2900.2180.... with

D:\temp>perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.6 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

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