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Looks like a proxy issue and all you need to do is set HTTP_PROXY evironment variable.
c:\ set HTTP_PROXY=<yourpoxy>
or to unset ( I have mine set for work ) and have to unset it at home to nothing.
c:\ set HTTP_PROXY=

Oddly, proxy and firewalls are not mentioned in the perldoc for ppm on my version of AS Perl (5.8.3), this is asked a lot though