problem with ppm - looking for MSWin320-x86-multi-thread-5.8

I am using perl with Windows XP and ActiveState Perl.
I downloaded finance-yahooquote.zip, unzipped it which gave
me a .ppd and .tar.gz file but when I tried to install it
I got this the message below about an MSWin320-x860-multi-thread-5.8
directory. I also tried using ./finance-yahooquote.ppd in
the ppm command and also the absolute path name but all gave the
same result.

I finally created the MSWin320... folder and put the two files in
there and then it worked. What I would like to know is why
it is doing this?

I have included a transcript, a dump of the .ppd file and the
output of perl -V below.

Thanks.

1. Transcript of session

C:\tmp2\tmp>ppm install -force finance-yahooquote.ppd
could not find ParserDetails.ini in C:/perl/site/lib/XML/SAX
could not find ParserDetails.ini in C:/perl/site/lib/XML/SAX
Note: Package 'finance-yahooquote' is already installed.
====================
Install 'finance-yahooquote' version 0.20 in ActivePerl 5.8.4.810.
====================
Error: error downloading
'file://c:/tmp2/tmp/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8/financ
e-yahooquote-0.20.tar.gz': 404 File
`C:\tmp2\tmp\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8\fi
nance-yahooquote-0.20.tar.gz' does not exist

2. ppd file looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOFTPKG NAME="finance-yahooquote" VERSION="0,20,0,0">
<IMPLEMENTATION>
<CODEBASE
HREF="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8/finance-yahooquote-0.20.tar.gz" />
<ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" />
<OS NAME="MSWin32" />
</IMPLEMENTATION>
<ABSTRACT>Gets stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance</ABSTRACT>
<AUTHOR>Dirk Eddelbuettel (edd@xxxxxxxxxx)</AUTHOR>
<TITLE>finance-yahooquote</TITLE>
</SOFTPKG>

3. The output of perl -V is:

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 4) configuration:
Platform:
osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
uname=''
config_args='undef'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define
usemultiplicity=define
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32
-D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED
-DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO
-DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX',
optimize='-MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1',
cppflags='-DWIN32'
ccversion='', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8,
Off_t='__int64', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:ref,icf
-libpath:"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86'
libpth=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib
libs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib
comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib
netapi32.lib uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib
odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
perllibs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib
winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib
oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib
version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl58.lib
gnulibc_version='undef'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug
-opt:ref,icf -libpath:"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
Locally applied patches:
ActivePerl Build 810
22751 Update to Test.pm 1.25
21540 Fix backward-compatibility issues in if.pm
Built under MSWin32
Compiled at Jun 1 2004 11:52:21
@INC:
C:/perl/lib
C:/perl/site/lib
.

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