I would have like to have provided more here so that it would have been easier for people to help. Unfortunately, the code is not very structured and that would not be very helpful.

I never questioned Perl as I have myself used 'use' multiple times without a problem.

I thought may be it was the way I was writing the module. I will go back and read up more on 'use' and 'modules' to see if I can find what I am doing wrong.