That's why my first piece of advice was uninstall, then reinstall.

Both ActivePerl 5.6 and 5.8 come with ppm3, and that is a ppm3 option. You don't need the any of the PPM shells to install ppm packages using PPM. PPM is also a module.

update: also, you don't need PPM to uninstall modules. See ExtUtils::Installed and `perldoc -f unlink'.

I so cannot wait for the CPANPLUS shell to integrate PPM support (there is a backend, well in CVS)

MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo! ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.