CGI in IIS 5.0 random stops

My fist is about to go through my webserver at this point. I am having a problem on a Windows 2000 Server SP3 box w/ IIS 5.0. My perl CGI scripts, called via direct link or SSI randomly stop working, and as far as I can tell, leaving nothing in the logs to say why this is happening. The server load is under 5% most of the time, and this is one of 3 websites run on this machine. The other sites use asp, and no perl for scripting.

When the problem happens, I can log onto the machine with remote desktop or locally and execute perl scripts at the prompt w/ no problem, but the website perl still doesn't work. After a period of 10-15 minutes, the CGI on the site works again. Does anyone have an idea what the problem might be? I'm about ready to rip my site off the IIS box and put it on a linux box at this point, but since the IIS server is there and has tons of storage, i'd rather stay on it.

You might try taking a look at some values using the performance monitor on the server. Maybe there is some code problem that's causing a memory or resource leak.