After an email conversation with Richard Soderberg, I have taken co-maintainership on File::Remove and IPC::Run and imported them into my open repository at http://svn.phase-n.com/svn/cpan/trunk/File-Remove> and
Anyone with access to the repository can make upgrades or repairs, let me know about them, and I will release the improvements.
Personally, I plan to upgrade File::Remove to let it delete read-only files owned by the user within a recursive deletion.