Dear monks Please help me I'm going mental.

I am trying to connect to oracle using :- DBD::Oracle 1.19
DBI 1.609
perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 4)
Compile-time options: USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES
on Solaris 10 Sparc 64bit

The above are pre-installed on the Sun installation.
I have my env variables set correctly and i can connect to the database ok via sqlplus on this unix workstation, but, with my LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to include both lib and lib32 directory's in the oracle client install i get the following errors.
$ ./oracle_connect.pl install_driver(Oracle) failed: Unable to get DBI state from DBI::_dbistate at ad778. DBI not loaded. at /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/DynaLoader.pm line 253.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 3) line 3.
at ./oracle_connect.pl line 17
any guidance would be much appreciated.
cheers Nick.

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