I don't have an actual answer, but since I see no one else has responded, here's my intuition.

Curses is a primarily unix thing. You probably can use it in windows, but you'd need some support libraries of some kind (cygwin?) I imagine. You'd think your Curses::UI would have balked during install if that's the case though...

So, maybe you should just go google "curses" and "windows"... oh, that's probably a bad idea... anyway, you should find out what curses needs to work in windows.

Another option would be to look for another more windows-ish style of text interface control.