> Unfortunately for the last week or two I've been unable to build any of 
> the distribution sets.  Is this happening to others?  The most common 
> problem seems to be 'extra' or 'missing' files ... presumably when the 
> tarballs are being created, I don't know ...

Extra files happen when the build area has old stuff in it.  Start with 
a clean directory.  If you're seeing missing files, then your 
distribution may be out of sync.

	--Ed