Not that this has a thing to do with the original post... but when I made my server, I didn't feel like installing everything completely. So I picked out perl58.dll, threw it into the server exe folder, and quests work.
Not sure what else I am missing, since I haven't fully tested all aspects. I just hate the fact you have to install all these packages to get one thing to work. And I keep remembering a rumor that perl was no longer needed - but I think that was bogus
