I finally installed ActiveState perl 5.10 and started working with it. Its nice. But when I try to run cpan, I get an error, which blocks all tasks: 
cpan> i /Run/
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
Going to read C:\Perl\cpan\Metadata
  Database was generated on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:02:50 GMT
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v5.810)
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9711)
Fetching with LWP:
  http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: YAML::XS loaded ok (v0.26)
Alert: While trying to 'parse' YAML file
 'C:\Perl\cpan\FTPstats.yml'
with 'YAML::XS' the following error was encountered:
  Usage: YAML::XS::LibYAML::Load(yaml_str) at C:\Perl\lib/YAML/XS.pm l
+ine 70.

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Does anyone know how to fix it? I have a talk about Perl (at work for other employees to populate Perl) in my schedule next Wednesday and would be really happy if didn't have to go back to perl 5.8, which worked without such error.

In reply to Winxp, AS perl 5.10 and cpan error by grizzley

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