Many thanks for everyone's useful suggestions.

>> I would like to replicate all this on a new
>> PC that is running Windows XP-64
>
> Easiest way to do that is to run, on your Win XP-64
> box, a perl that was "built for
> MSWin32-x86-multi-thread". That doesn't give you an
> x64 build of perl, but it does work fine on your
> Win XP-64 box, and it does allow you to easily achieve
> the replication you seek.

This is what I ended-up doing in my case... and everything is working a treat.

I mainly use Perl for some sysadmin jobs on the PC and I don't really need to take advantage of the x64 things... so running the Win32 version is all that's necessary.

Again, many thanks for the assistance.