You may note that . disappears from @INC if you're running with taint checking, which you are forced to have when running as root ...

Not that you'd ever dream of running your webserver or CGI scripts as root... but just so you know

use lib 'lib'; seems a farily nice alternative (you can stick it at the top of your scripts, right where you've got use strict; use warnings;

Throw those suckers into a skeleton script and you're away...