I'm not completely sure, but I think the 'local' in your script is the problem. I tried the following piece of testcode to create a 'ctrl-c' handler, and it works fine. That means to me that whatever you want to do inside your ctrl-c handler must be possible by modifying my code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
$|=1;
my $i=0;
$SIG{INT} = sub { print $i++ if $i < 10; die if $i == 10};
while (1) { sleep (5) }
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By pressing ctrl-c it prints out 1 to 9 and the last time it dies..

Jouke Visser, Perl 'Adept'