WWW:Mechanize and Windows

[Akira71]

***Major Newby Question Warning***

OK, now that the warning is in place. I have simple question I was hoping someone can give me direction on.
I have recently installed the WWW:Mechanize PPM package for Activestate Perl on Windows. This is version .48 of the package.
First I seem to be having some trouble getting the latest version to build so I installed the prior version.
Next I am getting this problem when I try to isntantiate a new class.

Can't locate object method "requests_redirectable" via "WWW::Mechanize
+"
(perhaps you forgot to load "WWW::Mechanize"?) at C:/Perl/site/lib/WWW
+/Mechanize.pm line 156.

The offending code in the PM is this.

sub new {
    my $class = shift;

    my %default_parms = (
        agent       => "WWW-Mechanize/$VERSION",
        cookie_jar  => {},
    );

    my $self = $class->SUPER::new( %default_parms, @_ );

    $self->{page_stack} = [];
    $self->{quiet} = 0;
    $self->env_proxy();
    push( @{$self->requests_redirectable}, 'POST' );

    return bless $self, $class;
}

The offending line being the push.
I feel as though I am missing something here, but I have isntalled every related package I can think of. I must get some screen scraping done soon and cannot get cUrl to install on windows (libcurl at least, not the command line version) and now Mechanize. Perhaps there is something better?
Can the wonderful monks of Perl save me from doing this in C++ (where I have a library)?