hehe again sorry to respond to my own posts (Induane glances around for Karyuu) but I've finally done a little bugbusting and updating on my script. On two seperate PCs it compiled and updated working versions (too new for the server though) and all seems to be good. It now backs up your current sources.list file, copies in mine, updates the package list, installs packages, then returns your original sources.list file and refreshes the package list again. This means it will now work completely out of the box on a fresh dapper install, but it also adds a little extra time to the whole procedure.