Yahoo, finally am making some progress. I was able to do a force install - it looks like I learned a few items. When running cpan with strawberry perl - if you go to the start menu, and you'll see an icon that says perl command - that is where you'll want to run. Also - running cpan -I DBD::JDBC will not work on windows, nor will cpan -fi DBD::JDBC - rather running the following appears to work: CPAN> install DBD::JDBC CPAN> force install DBD::JDBC The full word "install" & "force" need to be typed out. So, I still need to look into - but am getting closer.