So I understand it's an important part of the process, however I can't for the life on my understand how to get hold of my key.
I can access it easily enough with Bitcoin-Qt by going to the debug window and using the drumpprivkey command, however the PPCoin-Qt wallet doesn't have a debug window, and i've tried searching on Google and can't find anything. Can someone please help me out? Thanks.
I'm not on my computer with the ppcoin client installed so I don't have it in front of me but I believe this should work:
If you're in windows, open up a command prompt and go to the daemon directory within the directory where your ppcoin-qt client is installed. Run ppcoind.exe.
Now wait a minute or two and open a new command prompt and go back to the daemon directory. Type in "ppcoind dumpprivkey <ppcoinaddress>" where <ppcoinaddress> is the address for which you want the private key.
Give this a try and let me know if it works or not.