I was in gainroot all the while, but your advice in Step 2 was the one that got the script running in xterm.

Probably good to run in both MC and Xterm as the properties output was identical both times.

My deb file output is only 93 files, but as you can see from my prior posts, I run few apps, and in fact have uninstalled Maps.

A final rub:

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Downloading x11-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are usi ng the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not y et been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is e xtremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the s ituation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
x11-common: Depends: debianutils (>= 1.13)
E: Broken packages

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I'm not quite sure if this matters--my end goal is to have my installed programs off-line should maemo.org go off-line, or a zombie apocalypse finally come to fruition.

Thanks again,
Jake