Thanks for your suggestions.
However, I have no need to make this work at home. It would be helpful if I could make it work at the office, where unfortunately I can't change the OS (it's Win 2K and there's nothing I can do about it) and I can't freely access the web either (I can do some downloads but not everything). The post you pointed me to encounters an "upstream" problem (compared to mine) : the driver cannot be located. In my case, the driver is located and loaded but it looks like there's some incompatibility between the various libraries since perl.exe crashes

Regards,
Sorin