I think you'll have better luck asking this question in a Lotus Notes forum, and perhaps phrasing it as if you're accessing the data from VB rather than Perl.

Come to think of it, you may want to test with VB rather than Perl -- Win32::OLE isn't perfect, so it may just be that you can achieve what you're trying to do from VB.

I like perl, but I'll use whatever gets the job done, even if it's vb :)