Gllenn and anyone else, this may help. Probably the reason you can't get proftp with apt-get is it's not in the type of distribution apt-get is now pointed at. You may want to run dselect and choose 0 as your first choice and override your original sources.list file. The dselect program will then help you make a new sources.list. What I have in mine is all three of the types stable; testing, and unstable. On each of those types already described, I have main; contrib, and non-free. So that makes 9 entries in my sources.list file and I added the lines in README.non-US for the sources.list and I'll have to find the lines for security.debian.org to add to it too. Once you get that set up, exit out of dselect with choice 6, and try apt-get again. Two other packages to get but only after you've done that are bastille and psad. Once those get installed, just run InteractiveBastille and bastille will not only set itself up, it will also set up psad for you too. Interface inside of Bastille now is dodgey but likely to improve.
