Ubuntu :: Can't Spawn Telnet Session In Expect Script

I am moving my migration forward and am trying to get my expect scripts tested and found one that no longer works. Quite simply, it spawns a telnet session to a router.

#!/usr/bin/expect
set env(TERM) vt100
set timeout 3
set send_human {.1 .3 1 .05 2}
set timeout -1
#
spawn telnet 10.254.3.232

and that's it. The result of the script is that the command to spawn simply shows up on the screen like it is a puts command. On my older openSUSE system, it worked fine. I am running Ubuntu v9.10 desktop, and expect and its libs are patched to the latest rev, expect is 5.43.0.