lftp didn't download any better image than wget did earlier. I don't know if this is a hardware incompatibility problem between kernel 2.6 and a celeron machine yet or perhaps the download image was modified without authorization. I'm going to move a disk over to another machine and see if that helps. The weird thing is when I checked /boot/grub/menu.lst no mention of the speakup parameters I used to do the install was found in that file on a line that was executable.
