I uninstalled all older versions of Perl that I had on my PC and installed a fresh copy of Perl 5.8 and used ppm to install all of the modules that I needed. Things seem to be working better. Now when I type in perl myscript.pl, I receive the following error message:

Win32::GUI: the -style o ption is deprecated! at C:\LegacyPF\Perl\site
+\lib\Win32\GUI.pm line 603.
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