On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Dan wrote:
> I'm specifically asking my original questions to help me understand why my
> method isn't working.  If this isn't the place to discuss this type of
> thing, I'd appreciate a point in the right direction...Thanks again.

In that case, take a look at the patches in pkgsrc.
pkgsrc/x11/kdebase2/patches alone has 131 patches, so it's not
surprising that it doesn't work when you don't apply any of them :)