Oups... pressed the wrong key and sent it before I was done. I guess the documentation on this page is not accurate then:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/install.html#Testing_via_CGI_script because I'm definitely NOT seeing GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI-Perl/1.1 (it's CGI/1.1). Thanks a million! You have saved me hours and hours of digging around and hunting down red herrings. Alain