Sorry, I hadn't read your entire message before replying earlier; looks like you knew what the problem was already.
To clear out the old configuration, remove the directory .cpan in
your home directory and the file CPAN/Config.pm in the perl library.
Under Redhat it's
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/CPAN/Config.pm
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