(Please wait while "find / -name base.tgz" tells me if I got the
   new ones in the wrong directory...)  OK, never mind, I got the
   BETAs left over on my disk.  I'm assuming that getting the real
   1.4 images will improve the situation, correct?


not having tested or looked at them (aren't i such a law abiding
citizen? :-) i couldn't answer this.  however, the error you
dumped seems to indicate that something has only been partially
installed....