[ic] problems printing with perl

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Nick Spitzer)]

Hey everyone-

I'm trying to add some perl into one of the admin interface pages, except 
it's not printing to the page!
the following doesn't work:

[perl]
print("test");
[/perl]

while the following does:
[perl]
return "test";
[/perl]

of course the latter ends my perl run, as well.

does anyone have any idea why in the world this is happening?