You are exactly correct, except for one thing: even on the new database, the script does work from the browser with some parameters, but not with others. Regardless of the parameters passed though, the script entirely works from the command line.

If the script didn't work from the command line, this would be pretty easy. But none of my die statements are ever reached. Nor does ActivePerl allow me to use CGI::Carp (at least not that I'm aware of).