I hope this isn't an annoying double post but my first one doesn't seem to have posted... strange.

Anyway, According to whoever is at the other end of the cpan site email (I don't have the email here). The upgrading of perl is a bug NOT a feature. Upgrading to the latest CPAN.pm will fix this. Note: I looked up the email the name from CPAN that provided the information was 'Elaine-HFB-Ashtor'.