Winxp, AS perl 5.10 and cpan error

grizzley has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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.

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Re: Winxp, AS perl 5.10 and cpan error by jand (Friar) on Aug 23, 2008 at 01:17 UTC
Edit C:\Perl\lib\CPAN\Config.pm and change the yaml_module entry from `'yaml_module' => q[YAML::XS],` [download] to `'yaml_module' => q[],` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Winxp, AS perl 5.10 and cpan error by grizzley (Chaplain) on Aug 25, 2008 at 08:11 UTC
That's fixed it! Thank a lot!	[reply]
Re^2: Winxp, AS perl 5.10 and cpan error by Anonymous Monk on Sep 11, 2008 at 20:44 UTC
d@mn, $#!t worked for me too. Thanks dawg	[reply]
Re^3: Winxp, AS perl 5.10 and cpan error by jand (Friar) on Sep 11, 2008 at 22:23 UTC
By now ActivePerl 5.10.0.1004 has been released, which contains a fixed YAML::LibYAML module, so it is no longer necessary to disable the yaml_module in the CPAN configuration.	[reply]
Re^4: Winxp, AS perl 5.10 and cpan error by myourshaw (Initiate) on Oct 23, 2008 at 02:32 UTC
Re^4: Winxp, AS perl 5.10 and cpan error by meorero (Sexton) on Jul 13, 2009 at 13:46 UTC
Re^4: Winxp, AS perl 5.10 and cpan error by Anonymous Monk on Nov 10, 2008 at 14:43 UTC
Re: Winxp, AS perl 5.10 and cpan error by Anonymous Monk on Aug 22, 2008 at 07:47 UTC
1. Google it. 2. Turn on debugging/verbosity 3. Try using cpanp (core since 5.009005)	[reply]