O wise ones - I'm stumped

Up to now when I've needed modules I've just copied them from CPAN into the appropriate sub-directory. But now I need Timer::HiRes, which is a bit more complicated it seems. So I've been trying to use ppm, but I get this error message 

not well-formed at line 1, column 17, byte 17 at
C:/perl/site/lib/SOAP/Parser.pm line 73

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I get this same error whatever module I try to load with ppm.

Sorry if this seems trivial but to me it might as well be Sanskrit! Here's a dump of other info that might be relevant:
- I'm using windows 98
- I'm running ppm from the c:\perl\bin prompt in a DOS box
- I have perl 5.6.0 (Activestate)
- All the modules I've installed successfully in the past have gone into c:\perl\lib

I would be very grateful if any wise monk can tell me either (1) how to make ppm work or (2) how else I can install Timer::HiRes (I can't get the makefile to work either) or, failing these, (3) another straightforward way to time bits of my code.

§ George Sherston

In reply to Problem installing PMs with PPM by George_Sherston

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