ActiveState PPM/PPM3 just hang up for me

[Graham]

I am running Perl 5.8.0 on Windows ME. If I run PPM or PPM3, I can
query my installed modules, but if I try to access the repositories on
the Internet (eg, typing "search *", it just hangs up. Anybody else
had this problem? Anybody know the answer?

Graham

 

[Graham]

I had a similar problem when I installed Perl 5.8 on top of Perl 5.6.
The solution was to uninstall Perl, then reinstall Perl 5.8.

Thanks Scott, but I am afraid it is not the answer for me: I have only
ever had 5.8 on my PC.