I also just upgraded/added a bunch of modules using CPAN (1.9205). I get similar errors, but have been able to fix one of them by installing an older version of Parse::RecDescent: 
cpan[12]> m Parse::RecDescent
Catching error: 'Can\'t locate auto/main/version/("".al in @INC (@INC
contains: /opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/5.8.8/sun4-solaris
/opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/5.8.8
/opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/sun4-solaris
/opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/site_perl/5.8.8 /opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/site
+_perl
/opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/5.8.8) at /opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/5.8.8/CPAN
+.pm
line 10254
' at /opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 281
        CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1

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Now this works. 
cpan[13]> m Parse::RecDescent
Module id = Parse::RecDescent
    DESCRIPTION  Recursive descent parser generator
    CPAN_USERID  DCONWAY (Damian Conway <damian@conway.org>)
    CPAN_VERSION 1.94
    CPAN_FILE    D/DC/DCONWAY/Parse-RecDescent-1.94.tar.gz
    UPLOAD_DATE  2003-04-09
    DSLIP_STATUS MdpO? (mature,developer,perl,object-oriented,)
    MANPAGE      Parse::RecDescent - Generate Recursive-Descent Parser
+s
    INST_FILE    
/opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/Parse/RecDescent.pm
    INST_VERSION 1.94

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I was tipped to this when building Module::ExtractUse (0.22): 
Fri Feb  1 11:14:15 MST 2008
/opt/local/src/Module-ExtractUse-0.22
/opt/perl/bin:/opt/cooltools-4.0.4/gcc/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:
+/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin
/opt/perl/bin/perl
# running Build.PL 
/opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/bin/perl Build.PL
 - ERROR: Parse::RecDescent (1.95.1) is installed, but we need version
+ >= 1.94

ERRORS/WARNINGS FOUND IN PREREQUISITES.  You may wish to install the v
+ersions
of the modules indicated above before proceeding with this installatio
+n

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This hasn't completely fixed the problem, but I'm getting fewer errors.

In reply to Re^4: What Just Happened to my CPAN Shell? (source?) by Anonymous Monk
in thread What Just Happened to my CPAN Shell? by rjray

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