Well darn it Sam, good luck! I have had enough trouble getting installer for SMALL projects to work. But as you rightly say a bad installation experience is the worst advertisement you can have.

I agree about the Apache and mod_perl installs too. Foolishly I thought that the versions supplied with the distribution would work. Think again! Even the Perl that was installed by my distribution was not good. So I ended up building EVERYTHING from scratch using sources. After a few false starts I finally got Perl. Apache and mod_perl/nod_ssl/OpenSSL to all work the way they should.

I have also tried some of the other packaging and installing scripts/modules and found none of them truly successful. I genuinely look forward to seeing what you come up with!

jdtoronto