And the answer to my own question is on line 41 of /perl510/lib/ActivePerl/PPM/Client.pm: 

    $arch .= sprintf "-%vd", substr($^V, 0, 2) if $] >= 5.008;

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Which produces: 

C:\Perl510>perl -wle"print $]; print $^V; printf qq[-%vd], substr($^V,
+ 0, 2)"
5.010000
v5.10.0
-118.53

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A few further questions arise:

  1. What is that sprintf trying to do? (What is pattern %vd besides the obvious:)
  2. How come other some other peoples copies aren't afflicted?
  3. Can anyone confirm their version of AS1000/1002 has the above line?
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In reply to Re^15: 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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