BrowserUk, that's wonderful! Thanks. I'll go investigate and give it a whirl. I would be delighted if it even works for 'most' of my modules. I didn't know about that option on ppm.

I have also used the CPAN shell on occasion (but I don't use it very often so I always have to re-learn it which is sort of a pain) so I'll keep the cpan> upgrade in mind, too.

Again, thanks.