Posting this because I checked my hashbang, made sure +ExecCGI was added as an option, and .pl is an addedhandler, and the .htaccess file should be fine as well. That being said, I get the following from apache, even if the scripts are in /cgi-bin:

[Mon Mar 02 20:45:12 2009] [error] Can't locate config.pl in @INC (@INC contains: . C:/xampp/perl/site/lib/ C:/xampp/perl/lib C:/xampp/perl/site/lib C:/xampp/apache) at C:/xampp/htdocs/kareha/kareha.pl line 8.\nBEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/xampp/htdocs/kareha/kareha.pl line 8.\n

Line 8 is:
BEGIN { require 'config.pl'; }

Working with a fresh install of xampp w/ perl addon, activestate's perl exec is in the directory that the scripts are looking for but even if I use the one from xampp I get the same results. Oddly, I get the same results even if I delete the hashbang line.