in reply to cgi-wrapper???
Can you run your script successfully from the command line? (CGI.pm emulates a web environment when you do this.)
AddHandler cgi-wrapper .cgi AddHandler cgi-wrapper .pl AddHandler server-parsed .shtml AddType text/html .shtml [download]
I debugged my code enough from the commandline that I was able to get rid of the fatal error when the Carp was not in place, so I feel better about my code in general now, but I still don't know why the WARN shows up in the logs...