Hi rsam,

The message is telling you that you're trying to install a ppm package that was *not* built for perl-5.10, and is therefore binary-incompatible with your perl.
This often just means that you're trying to install from the wrong repo (or that there's an error in the ppd file). I don't think it has anything to do with Vista.

What was the exact command that you ran ?
Which repo are you using ? (Running ppm set on Strawberry Perl will show you a list of the default repos. On ActivePerl run ppm repo list.)

Cheers,
Rob