in reply to Flummoxed by strict.pm

(@INC contains: .)

You have a broken install. If the Perl executable is located at

C:\path\to\perl\bin\perl.exe
then @INC should contain
C:/path/to/perl/site/lib C:/path/to/perl/lib .

Those directories are missing, and thus not added to @INC. A permission issue might do it too.