bingos, khen1950fx and AM: I have installed 0.9136 according to your instructions - here is the tail of the installation:
Installing F:\Win7programs\Dwimperl\perl\lib\CPANPLUS\Internals\Source
+\SQLite.pm
Installing F:\Win7programs\Dwimperl\perl\lib\CPANPLUS\Internals\Source
+\SQLite\Tie.pm
Installing F:\Win7programs\Dwimperl\perl\lib\CPANPLUS\Internals\Utils\
+Autoflush.pm
Installing F:\Win7programs\Dwimperl\perl\lib\CPANPLUS\Module\Author.pm
Installing F:\Win7programs\Dwimperl\perl\lib\CPANPLUS\Module\Checksums
+.pm
Installing F:\Win7programs\Dwimperl\perl\lib\CPANPLUS\Module\Fake.pm
Installing F:\Win7programs\Dwimperl\perl\lib\CPANPLUS\Module\Signature
+.pm
Installing F:\Win7programs\Dwimperl\perl\lib\CPANPLUS\Module\Author\Fa
+ke.pm
Installing F:\Win7programs\Dwimperl\perl\lib\CPANPLUS\Shell\Classic.pm
Installing F:\Win7programs\Dwimperl\perl\lib\CPANPLUS\Shell\Default.pm
Installing F:\Win7programs\Dwimperl\perl\lib\CPANPLUS\Shell\Default\Pl
+ugins\CustomSource.pm
Installing F:\Win7programs\Dwimperl\perl\lib\CPANPLUS\Shell\Default\Pl
+ugins\Remote.pm
Installing F:\Win7programs\Dwimperl\perl\lib\CPANPLUS\Shell\Default\Pl
+ugins\Source.pm
Appending installation info to F:\Win7programs\Dwimperl\perl\lib/perll
+ocal.pod
BINGOS/CPANPLUS-0.9136.tar.gz
F:\Win7programs\Dwimperl\c\bin\dmake.EXE install UNINST=1 -- OK
Looks ok, I think.
I then ran cpanp, and it seems to be working fine.
That was pressurizing. (sigh of relief).
Thank you for you investment of time and energy - Helen
By the way: can cpanp install a module from a PPM repository?