I did not "fix" this. But my server is now working. I did a search on my server for "Simple.pm" and found two copies. Luckily one was an older version.

so i just copied the older one into my current library and now the script works.

cp /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/Simple.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_pe
+rl/5.6.1/LWP/Simple.pm
[download]

I'm sure HTTP::UserAgent is probably broken but at least LWP::Simple is back to working again.