but could not find a generalised solution or an explanation of why this is happening
Really? Only a handfull of things could cause "Permission denied". You either don't have correct access permissions (unlikely), or the directory is use (open dirhandle), or it isn't empty. Example 
C:\>perl -e"mkdir 1234; opendir IN, 1234;rmdir 1234 or die $!"
Permission denied at -e line 1.


C:\>echo >1234\test

C:\>dir 1234
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 44B0-3C2E

 Directory of C:\1234

04/22/2006  03:49 AM    <DIR>          .
04/22/2006  03:49 AM    <DIR>          ..
04/22/2006  03:49 AM                13 test
               1 File(s)             13 bytes
               2 Dir(s)   3,360,935,936 bytes free

C:\>perl -e"opendir IN, 1234;rmdir 1234 or die $!"
Permission denied at -e line 1.

C:\>

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Any help would be appreciated very much. Thank you.
Well it appears to be a bug in ppm (and maybe other things), so contact the maintainers of ppm, and maybe even search the mailing list and bug database.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/PPM/
http://bugs.activestate.com/PPM/query.cgi
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/ppm

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 Re: DBD::Oracle install problem by PodMaster
in thread DBD::Oracle install problem by prakashc

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