I don't know... But you'll to have get a way out of this setup one way or another.

(Hmmm... if it's PROD, why would you make development on that box anyway...?)

You should be able to try if the problems vanish with some newer Perl and Perl modules even so, by using another development machine (you can have one at Amazon in no time) or by just installing the new modules into your home, even without upgrading Perl.

I cannot say so, but what would you do if I could: 'Oh, it's a nasty bug that was patched in the latest DBI/DBD::ODBC' ?

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