Mine gives This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread.

ActiveState screwed the pooch with the v5.8.0 release in that PPM knew to look for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8 but perl -V did not reflect that.

But all that is not important. Whats important is that you read your error messages carefully.
Error installing package 'G:\PerlCode\AddedModules\Config-Ini\Config-Ini.ppd': R ead a PPD for 'G:\PerlCode\AddedModules\Config-Ini\Config-Ini.ppd', but it is not intended for this build of Perl (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8) .

This (or ppm) is telling you that your version of perl is (or ppm considers it to be) MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8. Some might consider that the error message is English a problem. You should complain to ActiveState if you do :)

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
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In reply to Who told you to look at perl -V? by PodMaster
in thread PPM error msg: not intended for this build of Perl by mikeatrcn

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