DBI:Oracle Oracle8 IIS problem at prepare

[Mark Zimmerman]

my system:
    dual 933, 256 ram, 108gigs hd, win2k pro, IIS 5.0, ActivePerl 5.6.0,
latest DBI, latest DBD-Oracle
my problem:
    my script works in dos, but in IE 5.0 and NS 3.04 it dies at the prepare
statement (my $sth = $dbh->prepare($query))

I have tried everything I can think of.
If I change the DBD driver to ODBC it works, but I would rather use
DBI/Native Oracle drivers.
Since it gets past the ->connect statement, it is connecting to the Oracle
db.
Why is the ->prepare statement causing it to drop?
Is there another method of sending the query to the db that I can try?

Example of my script:

 use DBI;

 print "Content-type:  text/html\n\n";


 my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:Oracle:prd.world','username','password',
 RaiseError => 1 } )
  or die "Couldn't connect to database: " . DBI->errstr;

 $query='SELECT * FROM oracle_table WHERE last_name = ?';

 print "This prints fine!";

 my $sth = $dbh->prepare($query)
  or die "Couldn't prepare statement: " . $dbh->errstr;

 print "This prints in dos, but not to a web browser!";

 $lastname= "Lastname";
 my @data;
 chomp $lastname;
 $sth->execute($lastname)
  or die "Couldn't execute statement: " . $sth->errstr;

 while (@data = $sth->fetchrow_array())
 {
  my $id = $data[1];
  my $firstname = $data[2];
  print "\t$id: $firstname $lastname\n";
 }

 $dbh->disconnect;
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