I haven't tried wget --no-cache yet as that cleared the cache last time.

Thankfully wget --no-cache still does the trick.
And I've come across an improvement in the form of wget --spider --no-cache which clears the cache without having to actually download the file.
(This is particularly useful if the cached file is large ... as can be the case with some of the tar.gz files that PPM needs to download.)
I still haven't been ale to work out just where the offending cache is located - though I have established that it's upstream of my router.

It still remains to work out how I can patch Strawberry's ppm utility such that running this wget command in advance is not needed.

Cheers,
Rob

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