Perl is NOT installed properly at AIT.

Absolutely not.

I personally went around the bend with them numerous times on one of my personall accounts. They insisted socket.pm was installed but it was not executing. It existed but was not installed. Do you see the difference?

They didn't <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

They image perl onto the servers, they do not install it properly. Insist that they reinstall perl again, using all defaults, using the latest version or this problem will never go away.