Well. I finally tracked down what architecture PPM thinks it should be installing for: 

c:\Perl510\bin>
perl -MActivePerl::PPM::Client 
-wle"print ActivePerl::PPM::Client->new()->arch"

MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-118.53

[download]

Now from where do you think it came up with that?

Because I've searched my entire bloody filesystem and registry and that string doesn't seem to appear anywhere! Gah!

If Gavin hadn't just installed 1002 and encountered the same failure, I might assume that the reason 1002 was released so soon after 1000, was to correct this...but that still doesn't explain where it comes from. The absence of the string anywhere on my system suggests it must be constructed at runtime. Why? Does it change from run to run?

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In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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In reply to Re^14: ActiveState Perl 10.x and Crypt::SSLeay not installed errors on Windows 2003 by BrowserUk
in thread ActiveState Perl 10.x and Crypt::SSLeay not installed errors on Windows 2003 by yeah

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