I have experienced erratic problems with Storable which prompted me to use YAML instead. (I actually found the format to be much more convenient in the long run, simply because it is human-readable.)

All that I mean by this suggestion is:   (a) no, you are not the only person who has had (insurmountable) trouble freezing and thawing things with this module; and (b) consider using another tool to do get the same job done.   If the data is large, you can either relax in the knowledge that the socket is really fast, or if the data is really large you can gzip-encode it.   My experience was, so to speak, “less filling, tastes great.”