> I certainly appreciate the help. Being a real newbie, could you point 
> me to the bug reports?

Sure.  http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/send-pr.html
It's good form to do a quick search for your problem before reporting a
new one.

> ps is something wrong with the pkg system at the moment? I can get at 
> them with Netscape but not ftp

I don't know.  It looks OK from here.  The web pages actually use
ftp://, so unless you're not hitting ftp.netbsd.org...

-allen