I think you've found it. My ActivePerl/PPM/Client.pm (AS build 1002) is slightly different: 
39:     unless ($arch) {
40:     $arch =  $Config{archname};
41:     if ($] >= 5.008) {
42:             my $vstring = sprintf "%vd", $^V;
43:             $vstring =~ s/\.\d+$//;
44:             $arch .= "-$vstring";
45:         }
46:     }

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When I run the code that's inside that unless block it sets $arch to MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.10 yet I get the same as you when I run the one liner you presented. And $arch .= sprintf "-%vd", substr($^V, 0, 2) if $] >= 5.008; definitely appends -118.53 to $arch.

But how come the difference betwen my PPM installation and your PPM installation ? (This should probably be raised on the PPM mailing list. I'm subscribed to that list but I don't recall seeing anything like this reported.)

Cheers,
Rob

UPDATE: I've just unzipped ActivePerl-5.10.0.1002-MSWin32-x86-283697.zip to make sure that my Client.pm is the same as the Client.pm that ships with that source - and it is. It's therefore rather baffling that some others end up with a dfferent version of Client.pm when they install build 1002.

In reply to Re^16: ActiveState Perl 10.x and Crypt::SSLeay not installed errors on Windows 2003 by syphilis
in thread ActiveState Perl 10.x and Crypt::SSLeay not installed errors on Windows 2003 by yeah

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