[Xitami] Xitami, Perl, and Win2000

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Hi,
I have just downloaded xitami and ActivePerl5.6.1.
I am hoping to be able to set up my website on my local computer
(running win2000) to try to get a message-board script working and
to change the HTML templates without having to go online all the
time to see if my changes work (which is very slow, expensive and time
consuming editing the files remotely or uploading all the time).

I am fairly intelligent, and not scared of computers or reading alot
of material, but I have not done anything like this before.

Before I waste 40 hours of messing about and ending up no better off
than when I started, can anyone tell me whether Xitami is capable of
supporting CGI/Perl scripts on a Windows machine, and also whether
trying to get Perl to work on my computer is a realistic goal for
someone who is not a computer expert or a system administrator.
Cheers.