I think you nailed it right on the head with that. I had all those alternatives in my yum.conf so I bet you that is what happened. Now I'm just using Fedora Core sites. I may look in to the Fedora Extra sites too. Might be easier than trying to scour the web for stuff... although if I had to look that hard for some of the software I've been looking for I don't know if it would be in the Extra sites. Well with the explination of what actually happened figured out, is there anything we can do to fix it short of a fresh reinstall? Thanx for all the help.