code in <perl> sections executed twice in same process?

Hi -

I am using mod-perl 1.3.41 with perl 5.8.9.

The only perl I have in my config file is:

<Perl>
  warn "This is a <perl> section in process $$ at time @{[time]}\n";
  sleep(5);
  warn "Done sleeping\n";
</Perl>

When I start it up in single process mode (-X), I'll something like
this on stderr (to the console):

This is a <perl> section in process 25597 at time 1258408992
Done sleeping

And also in the error log I'll see:

This is a <perl> section in process 25597 at time 1258408998
Done sleeping

The pids will be the same, but the times will be different (about 5
secs. apart.)

Is this "normal", and what can I do so that the code in <Perl>
sections is only executed once in the parent process?

Thanks,
ER