Sorry to be so slow in responding. What happened was that I was working with
XP for the first time and made a security change and I did it at the wrong place. So
basically ended up with no real access to the machine. Ended up having to have the
machine rebuilt.
I just a few
this is the tricky thing with XP for many users. XP uses NTFS by
default, which means that ACL permissions are applied to all
filesystems. The Activeperl msi installer is actually installed using
the MSI service, run as the SYSTEM account and NOT as your user account,
so many users run into
