limited cgi working environment in apache

[youwin]

hello, Ive just installed my apache server on windows xp with the wamp distribution and made minor changes to the httpd.conf file to get .pl files to be cgi-scripts. the .pl files work but my environment variables are a little messed up and I cant access some of my other drives on my computer

 

is the apache installation limiting what i can do in my perl scripts and if so how do I stop it from doing this?

 

the error log says the following when the perl command is: system "W:\bin\pwd"

The system cannot find the drive specified.\r, referer: http://localhost/perl_apache_tricks/