Great Article, have been looking for some more info on Perl DTS packages lately. One question for you, do you set the connection properties like this?

$Connection->ConnectionProperties("File Type") = 1;

$Connection->ConnectionProperties("Skip Rows") = 0;

$Connection->ConnectionProperties("Text Qualifier") = """";

In VBS its connection.ConnectionProperties("File Type") = 1

so from what I can tell this looks correct