B0rked System

I've been trying to work out a few minor problems that have been irritating me, and in the end I decided to try upgrading to kernel 2.6.9 to see if it helped at all. My sysem is now not particularly happy with me, and I am in the process of upgrading all outdated packages on my system in the hope that doing so will fix the various broken applications I have.

Only problem is, it turns out there are 77 outdated packages, and a lot of those are huge. I'm going to bed while it crawls through the process of updating them.