Yes, messing around with the repositories a bunch mostly did the trick for me too. Thanks for all the help people.

The earlier tip about gpodder did the trick too, but not until I fought battles with "Incompatibe Package" errors I was getting in the application manager.

In some instances I had to browse some of the repository sites to figure out its structure and adjust the Application Manager's Catalog entries accordingly.

So now I have a lot of places where I have both entries for Chinook and Diablo for the same repository. This can't be good, but it seems to be what is needed at this time.

Being a Debian and Ubuntu user on my PC's, I feel I kind of know how apt-get and repositories, as well as 'upgrades' are supose to work. The state of affairs in this Maemo world sure seems to be a mess. Fortunately since this is mostly an open source and community supported project, I am very optimistic that things will get better. So to others getting discouraged by all these upgrade issue, hang in there, we'll get through this andthings will be better than ever.

I've only owned my IT (N810) for about a month now and I'm totally adicted to it! Some day I'll have to post list of all the things I've got my IT to do for all those potential newbies who wonder what these things can be used for.

Anyway back on the thead, Canola2 still doesn't work, but that's okay for now.
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