The winning solution came from Kimmo Lehtonen, who told me to use the .debs at http://penguinppc.org/~puetzk/ .
I was able to just install the xserver-xfree86 package from there (the -7 one) and all is now well with the ATI driver. Excellent! -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>