By my understanding, you're doing it right, maybe you want to try alternate forms of SetProperty?

Or maybe try Win32::OLE wrapper Win32::AD::User?

For learning about Win32/OLE, I've accumulated this list of links :)

• Win32::OLE
• The behavior of Win32::OLE->new
• Using Win32::OLE and Excel - Tips and Tricks
• http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/04/21/win32ole.html,
• Re: perl library for controlling Windows GUI (like AutoIt)
• Re: Write to WIndows Event Log
• Re: How to get location of Desktop folder on Win32
• Read and write Windows "shortcut" links
• Where is the Win32::OLE Docs
• Using Win32::GuiTest
• WinSpy
• OLESPY
• Win32::OLE - Type Library Browser
• http://www.microsoft.com/com/
• OLE/COM Object Viewer (oleview.exe)
• Scriptomatic 2.0
• #develop
• Office Automation with Perl
• How do I convert a VBA macro to Perl?
• OLE withevents site:perlmonks.org
• Excel Object Model Overview