FYI, I finally got my problems with Apache::Cookie (part of libapreq) solved.
Much thanks to Stas for advice on solving this problem. Here's what I found: 1) Installing the glibc 2.2.4-24 updates borked the RPM installed perl 5.6.1. Building 5.6.1 from source fixed this problem. 2) libapreq 1.0 installs the libapreq.* files into /usr/local/lib. I ended up adding the path to ld.conf. Not sure if this was necessary.