Hi guys,
I don't think the problem is/was with the version I was trying to d'load. The differences between 3.4-2004-05-04 and 05-10 are supposedly minor and related to scsi devices and I believe the clock function (could be wrong).

I initially installed 2004-05-04 and the whole nvidia install process worked great. I loaded 2004-10 and I have the problem described. I re-load 05-04 and I can get the nvidia package again. Something was damaged in the generation of the 05-10 release. I was using exactly the same instructions to install nvidia in both versions.

I'm fairly new to Linux and have never heard of aptitude so no, I never tried to run it.

Jim