Why aren't my backtick calls working on Win32?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm running perl on NT and can't get the output of my other programs thru the use of backticks.
Example:

test1.pl --------

#! c:\perl\bin\perl

print "Hello World!";
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test2.pl
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#! c:\perl\bin\perl.exe

$output1 = `test1.pl`;
print "Option 1: ".$output1."\n";

open(STDOUT, ">output"); # from perlfaq8
system("test1.pl");
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Results:
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Z:\test> test2.pl
Option 1:

Z:\test> type output

Z:\test>
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---------- Any suggestions?

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