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There have indeed been some CPAN problems (Score:2)
So firstly, no guarentees if you have more than one Perl installed... no Perls really live together well.
Secondly, there's known issues in CPAN.pm.
I recommend uninstalling the July strawberry and trying again with the new October release.
http://strawberry-perl.googlecode.com/files/strawberry-perl-5.10.1.0.msi [googlecode.com]
This has a new (dev) CPAN release that might fix your problem, and some updated Perl modules and C libraries that should (hopefully) make the installation much easier.
Finally, yes, newbies are not REALL
Re:There have indeed been some CPAN problems (Score:2)
It's good to see honest feedback with warts and all and a reasoned response. It's shows good maturity - it would be so easy to fly off the handle with a post like this.
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