I let things sit overnight so I could come at this again from a fresh angle...right now my main & backup systems are down. For some reason, when I rebooted after the edit to the config file, I lost the link to /etc/alternatives, not sure why. Taking a break to do work around home - then I will re-establish all the links & try again.
-- Cheers!!! Dean Loros Performance by Design Ltd. autocrosser at http://forums.linuxmint.com debianmainuser at http://forums.debian.net