Hi,
If u r using XP home, Active Perl tries to configure .pl and .plx (to perl.exe ) for IIS which donot exist on XP home.May be becuase of this the Active Perl May not have got installed correctly . So , can u pls download perl source and built the perl on ur XP machine and try it !
hope this helps !
All Monks Pls correct me , if iam wrong .
regards,
Swaroop