все, решил окончательно:
my $brouser = new HTTP::BrowserDetect($ENV{\'HTTP_USER_AGENT\'});
my $cgi = new CGI;
my $headpage="Skif home page";
print $cgi->header(-expires=>\'no cache\', -charset=>\'koi8-r\');
if ($brouser->browser_string() ne \'MSIE\') {
print \'<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">\';
}
print $cgi->start_html(-title=>$headpage, -bgcolor=>\'5a66b2\',-leftmargin=>\'0\', -topmargin=>\'0\', -marginwidth=>\'0\', -marginheight=>\'0\',text=>\'lightgrey\',\' xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="ru" \');
И тогда все пучком...