Are you sure you ran exactly the same piece of code that I posted? It works for me both with perl 5.8.8 and perl 5.10.0. Which perl version did you use?
Am I correct in saying that % denotes a hash as opposed to @ denoting an array?

Yes. See perldsc, perlreftut, perlref and perldata for details.

Maybe you want something along these lines: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;
my $Document =XMLin("foo.xml");

while (my ($key, $val) = each %{$Document->{Placemark}}){
    printf "%s is at %s\n", $key,  $val->{Point}{coordinates};

}
__END__
 Abbeyhill  is at -3.17075,55.95705,0
 Abbey Strand  is at -3.17423,55.95277,0
 Abbeymount  is at -3.1723,55.95524,0

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In reply to Re^3: XML::Simple troubles by moritz
in thread XML::Simple troubles by carterniall

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