You really have many many issues here, first, your debugging would be a lot easier if you write these two line at the top of every Perl program..

use strict;
use warnings
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a second thing, your indentation style is extremely hard to follow.
a third issue, you're mixing many grid managers, which may not be the best thing to do, look at the end of the bottom of the second block of code you posted and you'd see that there's a "pack" followed by a "place".. take a look at "Tk::Adjuster" documentation...I really want to spend a great deal of time solving this but you may want to consider these advices I just gave you In addition to the other valuable advices that all the monks replying to your post have contributedd.