Why does make return as "bad status" and does this mean that YAML is installed?

No, YAML is not installed.

Something is wrong and it has to do with permissions. Maybe its your umask, maybe its permissions on the directory /Users/Erika/.cpan/build/, or ..... but for some reason you cannot read /Users/Erika/.cpan/build/YAML-0.71-pZsez6/META.yml. Try checking to see what the permissions on /Users/Erika/.cpan/build/YAML-0.71-pZsez6/META.yml are.

Next thing I would do is take cpan out of the equation and try cpanp i YAML, if that doesn't work, I'd do it manually, ie 

$ cd ~/tmp
wget -c http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/YAML-0.71.ta
+r.gz
tar -zxvf YAML-0.71.tar.gz
cd YAML-0.71
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

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In reply to Re^9: WWW::mechanize install by Anonymous Monk
in thread WWW::mechanize install by Anonymous Monk

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