printconf-tui bombs after upgrading PERL to 5.8.4??

Below is what I get when I try to run printconf-tui.

Any idea on how to get this running?

Is this a problem with PERL 5.8.4 or with printconf-tui or with python?
it worked fine prior to upgrading PERL (from 5.6)

Thanks
George


[root@alpha root]# printconf-tui
Initializing alchemist edit environment ...
Initializing linux printing database ...
Can't locate Foomatic/Defaults.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5
.8.4/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.4
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/
i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5
.8.0/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_p
erl .) at /usr/bin/foomatic-configure line 13.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/foomatic-configure line
13.
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/sbin/printconf-tui", line 8, in ?
    printconf_tui.startup_and_find_cmd()
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_tui.py", line 2142, in
startup_and_f
ind_cmd
    main.cmd_handlers[cmd]()
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_tui.py", line 2030, in
tui_main_run
    foomatic_init_overview()
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_conf.py", line 1224, in
foomatic_ini
t_overview
    root = parser.parse(foo.fromchild)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/utils/qp_xml.py", line 134,
in pars
e
    p.Parse('', 1)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0 

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