There have been dozens of posts over the perl problem. After awhile it gets confusing. In my experiences there are three different versions of perl that work at different build changes. These versions are:
OK after having this problem a ton of times myself, this might be helpful. If you are going to be using the pre-compiled downloads online, you want to use 5.8. If you are going to compile the source yourself, then you want to get 5.10.
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