in reply to Libraries for web based UI (complex one)
Have you tried IWL ? Its a Perl wrapper around Prototype/Scriptaculous.
The output isn't Dojo/Ext shiny w/ round corners and such, but it sounds like it might provide a decent solution for your needs (if I understand them).
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