Sorry to take so long to reply, but my wife called Friday while I was reading your message to say that our water heater had ruptured and the basement was flooded.

The shebang was mentioned as way to cover the -w switched referenced in Corion's message. Sorry for the confusion.

I would like to reload the perl on the XP box before continuing with this. Unfortunately, I am working from home today because of the plumbing problem and don't have access to the XP system.

I will post what the results are as soon as I get perl reloaded.