I am new to all of this and have been having trouble downloading along with many other users (in particular Python and Kagu), but I noticed an initial spelling error on one of the repositories when I flashed to OS2008. On a hunch, for the maemo Extra repository, I changed the address to http://repostory.maemo.org/extras/ (catalogue maemo extras, Chinook, free non-free). I was then able to download immediately with no problem.

Could it be a simple spelling mistake leading to all this trouble?

admjo