I am thinking its a problem with the version of libc/perl I'm running.

I'm currently running on FC 7 32 bit.

libc version:
GNU C Library stable release version 2.6, by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled by GNU CC version 4.1.2 20070502 (Red Hat 4.1.2-12).
Compiled on a Linux 2.6.9 system on 2007-05-24.
Available extensions:
The C stubs add-on version 2.1.2.
crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson
Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al
BIND-8.2.3-T5B
RT using linux kernel aio
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html.

Perl version:
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

Results of rpm -qa | grep perl:
perl-libs-5.8.8-18.fc7
perl-Test-Harness-2.56-18.fc7
perl-DBI-1.53-2.fc7
perl-DBD-MySQL-3.0008-1.fc7
perl-5.8.8-18.fc7
perl-URI-1.35-3
perl-Test-Simple-0.62-18.fc7
perl-ExtUtils-Embed-1.26-18.fc7
perl-CPAN-1.76_02-18.fc7
perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.30-18.fc7
perl-devel-5.8.8-18.fc7

Any insight?