Code:
apt-get -s -t unstable install program name
does work, it upgrades alot of the kdeprogs. but also wants to remove alot of them, including Koffice:
Code:
The following extra packages will be installed:
  ark imlib2 k3b kalarm kamera kandy kappfinder karm kasteroids kate
  kbattleship kbounce kcalc kcharselect kcmlinuz kcoloredit kcontrol kcron
  kdat kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdebase-bin kdebase-kio-plugins
  kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4
  kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdenetwork-kfile-plugins kdepasswd
  kdepim-kfile-plugins kdepim-libs kdeprint kdesktop kdessh kdf kdm kdvi kedit
  kfax kfind kfloppy kgeo kget kghostview kgpgcertmanager khelpcenter khexedit
  kicker kiconedit kjots klaptopdaemon klipper kmahjongg kmail kmailcvt
  kmenuedit kmix kmrml knotes konq-plugins konqueror konqueror-nsplugins
  konsole kooka korganizer kpackage kpager kpaint kpersonalizer kpf kpilot
  kppp krdc kreversi krfb kruler kscd ksmserver ksnapshot ksokoban ksplash
  kstars ksync ksysguard ksysguardd ksysv ktimer ktip kuickshow kuser kview
  kviewshell kwin kxconfig libarts1 libartsc0 libexif5 libkdegames1
  libkdenetwork2 libkonq4 libkscan1 libqt3-mt libsensors1 libvorbis0 lisa
  secpolicy
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  audacity chromium chromium-data criticalmass cuyo enigma freeciv
  freeciv-client-gtk freeciv-client-xaw3d frozen-bubble isdn-config isdnutils
  isdnvboxclient kaddressbook karbon kate-plugins kchart
  kdeaddons-kfile-plugins kdepim kformula kivio koffice-data koffice-libs
  kompare kopete koshell kpresenter kspread kteatime kugar kword libopenal0
  libqt3c102-mt libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-perl libvorbis-dev libvorbis0a
  penguin-command qcad qtparted scribus sox vorbis-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  imlib2 libexif5 libqt3-mt libsensors1 libvorbis0
and then:

Fourth, after installing Synaptic through apt-get, I could not load up my sources list. Synaptic would complain about not being able to read the file sources.list. Manually editing this file worked however.
Again odd. I've done quite a few installs and never had this happen. Anyone else?
yep: me. I dont really care, but its quite strange isnt it? esp if its supposed to work...