dubwise, ShyBoy, debernardis, and anidel, thank you for your posts! I figured I might need to clean some stuff up. I had reflashed and in the process of reinstalling I installed practically every repository listed in gronmayer.com for os2008. I think that introduced a bunch of conflicts that have shown up in various little ways. gnumeric is installed so that's probably a problem too.

How do I know if I've used all of my application installation space? The internal card is mostly unused and I have plenty of space on an external card. Where do apps get installed? rootfs? (...probably should search to answer that).

Thank you again,
Frank