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"Maybe Tie::IxHash?"

Yep, that's it - thanks for the link, ZZamboni! README says it "requires: Perl Version 5.003 or later", which shoots down my off-the-cuff guess of version compatibility problem. When I get a chance, will spend a bit more time getting syntax right.