I also commend your correct spelling of "tightarse"

Thank you !! That was, of course, my major concern. Woulder been nice if you'd also acknowledged that I had (correctly) referred to the inhabitants of Scotland as "Scots" rather than "Scotch people" ... it's a subtlety that's often completely overlooked "down under".
I am, of course, being deliberately (and ridiculously) flippant :-)

one thing that would be nice (and may already exist) is an up-to-date list of PPM repositories

Quite by chance, I stumbled upon this a few days back (from ActivePerl's lib/PPM/Repositories.pm) which may well be the best such list going around: 
our %Repositories = (
    bioperl => {
        location => 'http://bioperl.org/DIST/',
        Notes    => 'BioPerl - Regular Releases',
        PerlV    => [ 5.8, '5.10' ],
    },
    'bioperl-rc' => {
        location => 'http://bioperl.org/DIST/RC/',
        Notes    => 'BioPerl - Releases Candidates',
        PerlV    => [ 5.8, '5.10' ],
    },
    bribes => {
        location => 'http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/',
        Notes    => 'Bribes de Perl',
        PerlV    => [ 5.6, 5.8, '5.10', 5.12 ],
    },
    gtk2 => {
        location => 'http://www.lostmind.de/gtk2-perl/ppm/',
        Notes    => 'gtk2-perl bindings (check also \'voltar\' reposit
+ory)',
    },
    'gtk2-old' => {
        location => 'http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/win32/ppm/',
        Notes    => 'Old "official" Gtk2 repository',
    },
    log4perl => {
        location => 'http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/ppm',
        Notes    => 'log4perl (pure perl)',
        PerlV    => [ ],
        PerlO    => ['perl'],
    },
    roth => {
        location => 'http://www.roth.net/perl/packages/',
        Notes    => 'Dave Roth\'s modules',
        PerlV    => [ 5.6, 5.8 ],
    },
    'tcool-ppm3' => {
        location => 'http://ppm.tcool.org/server/ppmserver.cgi?urn:PPM
+Server',
        Type     => 'PPMServer',
        Notes    => 'Kenichi Ishigaki\'s repository (PPM3))',
    },
    tcool => {
        location => 'http://ppm.tcool.org/archives/',
        Notes    => 'Kenichi Ishigaki\'s repository (PPM4)',
    },
    trouchelle58 => {
        location => 'http://trouchelle.com/ppm/',
        Notes    => 'Trouchelle: 5.8',
    },
    trouchelle510 => {
        location => 'http://trouchelle.com/ppm10/',
        Notes    => 'Trouchelle: 5.10',
        PerlV    => [ '5.10' ],
    },
    trouchelle512 => {
        location => 'http://trouchelle.com/ppm12/',
        Notes    => 'Trouchelle: 5.12',
        PerlV    => [ 5.12 ],
    },
    'uwinnipeg56-ppm3' => {
        location => 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?ur
+n:/PPMServer',
        Type     => 'PPMServer',
        Notes    => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.6 (PPM3)',
        PerlV    => [ 5.6 ],
    },
    uwinnipeg56 => {
        location => 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages',
        Notes    => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.6',
        PerlV    => [ 5.6 ],
    },
    'uwinnipeg58-ppm3' => {
        location => 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?ur
+n:/PPMServer58',
        Type     => 'PPMServer',
        Notes    => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.8 (PPM3)',
    },
    uwinnipeg58 => {
        location => 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms',
        Notes    => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.8 (PPM4)',
    },
    uwinnipeg510 => {
        location => 'http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/',
        Notes    => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.10',
        PerlV    => [ '5.10' ],
    },
    uwinnipeg512 => {
        location => 'http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/12xx/',
        Notes    => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.12',
        PerlV    => [ 5.12 ],
    },
    voltar => {
        location => 'http://voltar.org/active/5.8/',
        Notes    => 'Paul Miller\'s Games::RolePlay::MapGen and Gtk2 r
+epository',
    },
    wxperl => {
        location => 'http://www.wxperl.co.uk/repository',
        Notes    => 'wxPerl modules',
        PerlV    => [ 5.8, '5.10', 5.12 ],
    },
);

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Cheers,
Rob

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