When I had problems installing podracer among other programs on lenny, it was because of the inability of dpkg to actually do clean upgrades and clear out old artifacts from earlier systems. A little earlier I installed Linux using Samuel Thibault's mini-beep.iso and once done I had no problems installing any of the problem packages. Also, the celeron has a defective cmos which has already caused repeated problems so that slowed things down a bit finding out what was really going on.
