Did none of your read what he actually wrote? At the very least, you haven't tried to install IM lately. He's got Perl 5.8, he's got the latest ImageMagick installable (for 5.8), he's following the directions to install the local ppd from the correct directory, and it's not working.

It looks to me like you did it correctly, but are you using ppm3? That might make a difference.