Joe, thanks for all your help but, man I'm getting nowhere fast! I downloaded the Win-GUI-0.0.558.tar.gz, extracted it and tried doing the install as you described and again no deal (no ppd in the archive). Then I tried doing another install from AS and I'm still on 0.0.502.
C:\ActivePerl\lib\gui\Win32-GUI-0.0.558>perl -v This is perl, v5.6.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread C:\ActivePerl\lib\gui\Win32-GUI-0.0.558>ppm install Win32-GUI.ppd Retrieving package 'Win32-GUI.ppd'... Error installing package 'Win32-GUI.ppd': Could not locate a PPD file for package Win32-GUI.ppd C:\ActivePerl\lib\gui\Win32-GUI-0.0.558>ppm install Win32::GUI Retrieving package 'Win32-GUI'... Writing C:\ActivePerl\site\lib\auto\Win32\GUI\.packlist C:\ActivePerl\lib\gui\Win32-GUI-0.0.558>ppm PPM interactive shell (2.0) - type 'help' for available commands. PPM> query Archive-Tar [0.072 ] module for manipulation of tar archives. Compress-Zlib [1.03 ] Interface to zlib compression library HTML-Parser [2.23 ] SGML parser class MIME-Base64 [2.11 ] Encoding and decoding of base64 strings Net-Telnet [3.02 ] Interact with TELNET port or other TCP ports PPM [2 ] Perl Package Manager: locate, install, upgrade software packages. Tk [800.022] Tk - a Graphical User Interface Toolkit URI [1.04 ] Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative) Win32-API [0.01 ] Implementation of arbitrary Win32 APIs. Win32-GUI [0.0.502] Perl-Win32 Graphical User Interface Extension XML-Element [1.07 ] Base element class for XML elements XML-Parser [2.27 ] A Perl module for parsing XML documents libwin32 [0.16 ] A collection of extensions that aims to provide comprehensive access to the Windows API. libwww-perl [5.45 ] Library for WWW access in Perl >