so I tried to do this from my home machine where I am using activestate perl 5.12.4 on win7-64 and I get the following errors:

C:\Users\Darryll>ppm install DBD-mysql
Downloading DBD-mysql-4.022...redirect
Downloading DBD-mysql-4.022...failed 401 Authorization Required
ppm install failed: 401 Authorization Required

C:\Users\Darryll>ppm install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/DBD-mysql.
+ppd
ppm install failed: The PPD does not provide code to install for this 
+platform
[download]

would it be possible for someone to send me all the installed files from the DBD-mysql installation so that I can use them? I have already gone down the activestate perl 5.16 path in my development and this is the last module that I need to get working. it would be a lot of work to switch to another database driver or another version of perl.

thanks,