tachyon has a great answer, and likely the quickest. But, what version of ppm are you running? I've got 2.1.5, and Time-HiRes installs just fine.

IIRC, some older versions of ppm had all kinds of problems. If you upgrade at least your ppm or all of AS, likely the issue will go away ( it did in my case ).

HTH
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