" I got only the two copies of version 0.21 when I tried typed in the search.."

That's probably because you have less active repositories configured than I do. I have 4, I think the default is 2. You can see which repositories are configured (and active) by issuing the rep[ository] command, ie:

ppm> rep
Repositories:
[1] ActiveState PPM2 Repository
[2] ActiveState Package Repository
[3] UW_Winnepeg
[4] Kobes
[ ] Winnepeg2
[download]

"I agree that that's not the way to do the install command."

Well, there are several ways to install using ppm - it's just easier after a search to install by number. You can also install by a range of numbers, or a URL. "help install" from the ppm command-line gives the full low-down.

Cheers,
Darren :)