in reply to Re^3: Parsing UTF-8 HTML w/ HTML::Parser
in thread Parsing UTF-8 HTML w/ HTML::Parser

That helps, but I still don't understand what's going on. At this point, I have:

my $root = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_content( $mech->response->d +ecoded_content );

And that's working on the production box ... now I just want to back away slowly and hope it doesn't go all screwy on me again. ;)