but could not find a generalised solution or an explanation of why this is happening
Really? Only a handfull of things could cause "Permission denied". You either don't have correct access permissions (unlikely), or the directory is use (open dirhandle), or it isn't empty. Example
C:\>perl -e"mkdir 1234; opendir IN, 1234;rmdir 1234 or die $!"
Permission denied at -e line 1.
C:\>echo >1234\test
C:\>dir 1234
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 44B0-3C2E
Directory of C:\1234
04/22/2006 03:49 AM <DIR> .
04/22/2006 03:49 AM <DIR> ..
04/22/2006 03:49 AM 13 test
1 File(s) 13 bytes
2 Dir(s) 3,360,935,936 bytes free
C:\>perl -e"opendir IN, 1234;rmdir 1234 or die $!"
Permission denied at -e line 1.
C:\>
Any help would be appreciated very much. Thank you.
Well it appears to be a bug in ppm (and maybe other things),
so contact the maintainers of ppm, and maybe even search the mailing list and bug database.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/PPM/
http://bugs.activestate.com/PPM/query.cgi
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/ppm
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