at least one part of the mystery is solved.
when i installed perl 5.8.4 with the .8 distribution from randy, i deleted the old perl and apache2 directories so it would be fresh. and yes (as verified on another install on a different pc), apache 2.57 gets introduced. this happens (no surprise) to correspond to the version of apache on the mod-list for the distribution.
but when i looked at the asp.pm file, it was saying 2.55 and got me making a few more gray hairs. my memory was delete perl/ install. how did it revert to 2.55.... hummm. it seems the after i put up a distribution, i have to manually load 12 or so other perl modules. i could have used ppm and did an install Apache-ASP. as a test i tired that and to my surprise, when you update asp with ppm, it reverts to 2.55. of course, at that point neither verify --upgrade or install will force in 2.57 under ppm 2.1.6.
most of the time it seems when i run ppm/ verify and get a message about update available, a ppm/verify --upgrade tends to simply give me a message that the version is already up-to-date.
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