| Once I actually got 0.0.558 installed (no clue what version | ActiveState's ppm gets by default) a number of things started working | better for me. (no surprise there, I suspect).
same here. When you do PPM QUERY it states version 0.99, which is > 0.0.558, so it refuses to install the "older" version. ActiveState should store the latest versions on their site.