Much updating weirdness the last few hours: I reinstalled FC1 this afternoon. Once the install finished, I went straight to up2date. Judging by the extremely slow transfer rates, the servers were pegged. When the transfer of a given file would apparently time out (as indicated by the up2date progress bar) several minutes would pass and then up2date would display a notice that the package's gpg was invalid. However, that was not the case, because the message did not reappear when I subsequently managed to successfully download those packages. Eventually updated everything I need successfully, but 'twas a pain. billg