installing xerces when I don't have root

Hi,

Perhaps I am a bit too tired to see the obvious, but I am trying to
install xerces on a linux server. I successfully installed
xerces-c-src_2_3_0 (setting the XERCESROOT to
/home/<myarea>/bin/XML-XERCES-2.3.0-2/ ) and everything is looking in the
right place... I just don't see how to make it not want to write to the
perl5 files.

I was on the: make install command for Xerces-2.3.0-2 when it tried to
write to the perl5 files. (the install for the xerces-c-src_2_3_0 went
fine) 

This is the error:
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make[1]: Entering directory
`/home/<myarea>/bin/XML-Xerces-2.3.0-2/Handler'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/<myarea>/bin/XML-Xerces-2.3.0-2/Handler'
Warning: You do not have permissions to install into
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 84.
mkdir /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Handler:
Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 137
make: *** [pure_site_install] Error 255