It's up-to-date. Next up you'd like to show us a list of packages your previous owner installed such that we can figure out what's going wrong: Under Xterminal, type: Code: maemo-list-user-packages > /home/user/MyDocs/package.list Then connect your N900 to your PC via the USB cable, choose 'Mass Storage' in N900 such that the N900 can be mounted as a flash drive. In the newly mapped flash drive, find the 'package.list' and attach it here for our investigation. P.S. If you've problem finding the '>' for your keyboard layout, just open this page in N900 and copy and paste the above command to your xterminal.
maemo-list-user-packages > /home/user/MyDocs/package.list