alias to cpanel stats script

I'm trying to give a customer access to their AWSTATS without given them
full access to CPanel.

Here's what's in the httpd.conf (Apache 1.3.33):

<VirtualHost IPADDRESS>
ServerAlias www.customersite.org.au customersite.org.au
ServerAdmin webmaster@customersite.org.au
DocumentRoot /home/customer/public_html
BytesLog domlogs/customersite.org.au-bytes_log
ServerName www.customersite.org.au
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/customer/public_html/cgi-bin/
#### This is the stuff I've added for stats
Alias /stats/ /usr/local/cpanel/base/
<Directory /usr/local/cpanel/base>
Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
</Directory>
#### End of stats code
User customer
Group customer
CustomLog domlogs/customersite.org.au combined
</VirtualHost>

The intended access URL would be:
http://www.customersite.org.au/stats...org.au&lang=en

What I get is a 500 Server error with the message:
Premature end of script headers: /usr/local/cpanel/base/awstats.pl

If I write a local cgi-bin script called awstats.pl which immediately
"chdirs" to "/usr/local/cpanel/base" and then executes the real awstats.pl
script, it all works except for some error messages about missing scripts
and graphics. This is because the "chdir" is not sufficient to rewrite all
the URLs.

I also tried creating a symlink from /usr/local/cpanel/base to
/home/customersite/public_html/stats/ but that didn't work either.

The suexec_log tells me this:
[2005-01-17 15:35:23]: info: (target/actual) uid: (customer/customer) gid:
(customer/customer) cmd: awstats.pl
[2005-01-17 15:35:23]: error: cannot stat program: (awstats.pl)

Clearly suEXEC is causing the problem because it's not smart enough to find
the awstats.pl I'm trying to run. But, I can't disable it because it would
break other things.

Any ideas as to how to achieve this? Can I change the suExec parameters
somewhere - they seem to be compiled into Apache!?!

tia,
RR