Nice try but I read about @INC and have the module in iXML/TheConstruct.pm ("/home/iordy/perl.iordy.net/iXML/TheConstruct.pm")

I even went to the trouble of using something like:

use lib "/home/iordy/perl.iordy.net"; in my script that calls iXML/TheConstruct.pm

interesting: I just found that if I put Apache->request; in a sepereate sub it works. wtf?? It could be painfull but it works.