I think I know what happened, at least in DistantFire's case (although we are still working on it, to be sure). If you already had the extras-devel repository set up, the application manager may decide that it doesn't need to re-check the repository list of packages. If it last checked the repository after the buggy gpesummary package was created, but before the fixed package was created (about 24 hours I think) it might download the bad package and not realise there is a newer update.

A similar problem can happen to other packages: the application manager may just decide that there are no updates available!

So, if you want to install this beta release you need to force an update. The easiest way to do that is to open the extras-devel repository in the Catalogue list as if you were going to change it, but then just click on OK. The Application Manager will then re-download the list of packages.

In particular, before updating gpesummary, please check the version that is going to be installed. It should be 2.8+maemo+svn20080722-4 (or later). In particular, it should NOT be 2.8+maemo+svn20080722-1, which can cause crashes.

Graham