Ah, OK, I know I was guilty of doing this (until recently) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (of couse $#$arrref is correct). Used to give me "Bizzare copy of array at ..." but only under "perl -d script.pl" (or perl -d:ptkdb script.pl when its available to me) . I'll checkit out, there are some very deep references (lets see - hash->hash->array->hash->hash->array->hash->hash - and every hash is blessed - what could be simpler !!!)
Yes, exactly the same type of error that Devel::Cover revealed to me.
jimk