I haven't used POE, but have built a number of Tk apps in .exe form using ActiveState. I don't mess around with manually editing the --add command line stuff. I put explicit "use" statements in the code. In the case of Tk, although just "use Tk;" is enough when running in normal environment, to make the .exe I find that I need to "use" all of the individual widgets that the program calls...like below.. You may find that "using" the module in the code produces a different result than --add does. Your mileage may vary, but I would suggest trying this approach.

use Tk;
use Tk::TableMatrix;
use Tk::LabFrame;
use Tk::Listbox;
use Tk::Scrollbar;
use Tk::Button;
use Tk::Menubutton;
use Tk::Menu;
use Tk::Widget;
use Tk::Label;
use Tk::Entry;
...etc..
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UPDATE:
I looked at one of my .PerlApp files. Now I am on 7.1 and haven't installed the latest version yet...BUT this is a real product in its 2nd year of production. The project code name is "green" which of course means nothing to you. I took out some path names, but this is basically what your .PerlApp file should look like.

Notice: this .exe is not dependent on anything, there are no dynamic .dlls's, AND nothing has been "forced" into the .exe. This Gui: 0 stuff means that there is a command window that starts also (ie, this is not a strictly GUI only application). Hostname "bigmomma" is just the name of my build machine.

Your .PerlApp file should look like this...very clean...no voo-doo.

As far as path goes, in the PerlApp application, C:\Perl\site\lib;C:\Perl\lib;.

In other words, this builds from the standard libraries and accesses current directory for non_standard ones (they could be in a different directory).

Hope this helps! When your .PerlApp file looks as clean as this, you will have a working .exe file.

#!C:\Program Files\ActiveState Perl Dev Kit 7.1\bin\lib\pai.exe
PAP-Version: 1.0
Packer: C:\Program Files\ActiveState Perl Dev Kit 7.1\bin\perlapp.exe
Script: green.pl
Cwd: C:\PROJECTS\XYZZY1\XYXXY2\XYZZY_experimental
Clean: 0
Date: 2008-08-28 21:51:03
Debug: 
Dependent: 0
Dyndll: 0
Exe: green.exe
Force: 0
Gui: 0
Hostname: bigmomma
Icon: GREENLOGS.ICO
Icon: GREENLOGS.ICO
No-Compress: 0
No-Logo: 0
Runlib: 
Shared: none
Tmpdir: 
Verbose: 0
Version-Comments: .............
Version-CompanyName: ..............
Version-FileDescription: version 2.01 green
Version-FileVersion: 2.1
Version-InternalName: ..............
Version-LegalCopyright: ...........
Version-LegalTrademarks: .............
Version-OriginalFilename: Green 
Version-ProductName: Green 
Version-ProductVersion: 2008
Xclude: 0
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