First off, thank you so much for your patience and wisdom, dws, you've solved my problem.

I uninstalled PWS (Win98) and reinstalled. Before rebooting post-installation, I went in and added it to the Script Map with the -T like it should be. After reboot, I tried my make taint puke script and it puked!!! :)

So, for shits and giggles, I uninstalled PWS again, reinstalled and instead of adding perl to the script map with -T, I added it without -T (like so: c:\perl\bin\perl.exe %s %s). After reboot, I modified the entries to include the -T. Rebooted again, and when I tried the script, I got the "Too late for -T" message. Which, was my original problem.

In the end, after fixing then breaking PWS again, I guess the problem was that when setting up PWS for Perl, I didn't think ahead and put the -T where necessary (please, no flames, I was monk-less when I set this up). I'm also an idiot for not test-casing this more simply because if I had mapped .cgit instead of modifying .cgi I most likely would have seen this behavior sooner.

And for the record, now that the problem has been solved, I can safely remove -T from the #! line - it still taint checks.

Update: Due to several complaints, removed signature

Sarah