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When you say "old, old machine," how old are we talking about? Mine is five yrs, and it was 6.10 that wouldn't install.

I don't particularly relish the idea of doing two installs, especially since I once lost everything simply by re-installing Litestep after not using it for awhile, which I've used on nearly every machine I've ever owned.

I think I just need to replace this thing anyway.

When you say "old, old machine," how old are we talking about?

It's a Compaq Presario with a screaming PII-266MHz processor and, wait for it, 256MB of RAM. Look out world! :)

I don't particularly relish the idea of doing two installs...

You won't do two installs; first you install 6.06 and then when you go to the software update tool, there will be an option for distribution update. Click that button, and (assuming you've got broadband) go away for a few hours. You'll return to a box that has upgraded to 6.10. Not too painful, actually. In addition, my 6.10 installation is asking if I want to go to 7.x, but I'm not ready for that yet.