Milhouse,

Many thanks.
I had someone look at it and they told me the corrupt files were just going to keep harming the apps and as I add more it would compound the problem. I had wget not working that is why the tar app never made it to the finishline.
I've learned an incredible amount and now at I least have a rudimentary understanding of what is going on. i've spent the day reading and looking over my notes as I went along.
I had it reflashed at Nokia store and before I load any apps I will do this first. Luckily I make regular backups (about once a week) so I can go back to different points in the development of the n800. MMC boot seems to be the foundation from which all other apps can be platformed on. After this install I will add the USB Host app. Then the rest.

Question - has anyone done it with a 16gb card? There doesn't seem to be limits to the size of the cards.

Many many thanks to you and Bunanson and Fanoush these last couple of weeks.

Dan
Now back to getting my n800 where I want it.