I'd also recommend setting up xampp to get going quickly - its pretty handy. For scripts and perl command line in win32 I found ActivePerl the best - you can get a version for free from here -> http://www.activestate.com/Products/activeperl/features.plex.

More info on perl on win32 here -> http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Win32_Distributio...