Many thanks once more for everybody's patience and thorough help. However, the project seems to have failed.

After clearing just enough room for the wheezy dist-upgrade, the process crashes when it complained for an upgrade lenny kernel (why dist-upgrade couldn't take care of that is beyond me).

After installing a lenny repo, I have a huge choice of kernels, none of which seemed connected to "easy debian." The whole thing is so cumbersome and I find myself lost.

Failure can be just as instructive as success, and again, I very much appreciate everybody's assistance. You taught me many things.

Jake