I've now got Rose installed on my client but it's failing on my server due to DateTime. I noticed your mention of the "DateTime PPM hunt" - does this mean you know something I should know??
WRT DateTime only, so far the following modules have failed with CPAN but I have installed them using PPM:
But DateTime itself doesn't seem to be on the AS repository and CPAN won't install it either. Stuck again...any pointers?