>The only conclusion I can come too is that ppm is broken under >Windows 2000, is there a ppm mailing list that I can consult?
Only the main ActiveState win32-perl-users list. I had difficulties with PPM too. You could try PPM3. It's beta, but it's a complete rewrite of PPM. You have to install it separately. It could also be that dada.it is down at the moment. Marcus