Still Thwarted
I'm so close (yet so far) to what has been a minor holy grail for me: A batch path conversion utility that actually works; a thing that will change document relative paths to absulute, to root relative and back and sideways etc.

I (finally) got my machine (an nt box) set up so I can actually install perl modules from cpan. And I've got something that looks like it ought to work.
But it doesn't yet.
It will though.. soon.