I am running on windoze XP. When I check PPM it lists two installed versions of DBI, ver 1.54 installed in area "site" and ver 1.52-r1 installed in area "perl." I'm not too sure how this happened, unless it was during a recent upgrade to activeperl 5.8.x when I resored a snapshot of the modules from the old installation. Maybe this has something to do with it?