Hi I have ran into a problem on my n800 where my application list will not refresh automatically or manually. i cannot download apps on maemo either because of this. Anyone have any ideas

Interesting. I've been having this same problem. I figured it would eventually go away, but it hasn't.

Seemed to me they were just super extremely slow today.
Took many minutes, but eventually everything refreshed.

The problem is that the Nokia certified repo md5 sum is invalid, the problem will eventually go away if somebody fix it.

Just refreshed and everything seemed up to speed.

I got fed up last night trying to refresh the application list in the Application manager (kept getting stuck at Downloading 564KB).

I switched off the device and turned it back on, went to X-Term and ran apt-get (I cannot remember the exact command.. was reading it on this forum), and that worked fine.

What thread were you reading ghoonk...

i'm still seeing on the tableteer repo "md5 sum is invalid" so i can't install rhapsody, camera, fmradio...

Honestly, I can't quite remember. I usually have multiple tabs open with iTT threads (I have 8 open as I type this), and if I recall correctly, I was trying to install the A2DP capabilities (without success) and one of the armel.deb files wouldn't get processed by ./install.sh correctly, and I was looking across several sites and iTT looking for a fix in case something in my repo wasn't being updated correctly (Dubai's FLAG connection got cut last night).

Found it:

sudo gainroot
apt-get update (make sure Application Manager is closed when you do this)

Hope this helps...