Yep - I have no comeback to any of that :-)
In future, I'll just make sure that I build my ppm packages using ActivePerl and MinGW, not MingW-built perl and MinGW - which is not such a big ask. That way, it will only be on the rare occasions of my ppm package being installed on a non-MSVC build of perl, that a potential for such a problem exists.

Thanks, almut.

Cheers,
Rob