> If even that doesn't work and seeing what you are reporting, > I'd conjecture that one possible problem would be RAM (when it > starts to be accessed more instensely due to the unpacking of > the packages, you see the corruption). > > Would this perhaps explain the problems you're seeing?
Wow. I didn't think this would have mattered, but it certainly did. The 64MB of RAM that is in the system is fine, but as soon as I added another strip of 128MB the system now works fine. Why wouldn't it work with only 64?! Thanks a million!!!