nooooooooooooo! I'm an idiot. well.. i've learned my lesson. *sigh.

I guess I will wait and back up my files before I go on with this much needed advice.

Thanks for being patient.. I will repost with results.. later. Thanks again

i missed reading post #5 where you gave a list of repos
this was in it
epel.repo rpmfusion-free.repo
epel-testing.repo rpmfusion-free-updates.repo

unfortunately this tells us nothing about there state
Are they on or off ?
run this and post back
this outputs a list of ONLY the ones turned on

you also have "fedora-rawhide.repo rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo" in your list
if that is on ( it is fedora 12 ) and you have installed ANY of them your system might be beyond repair
and a full reinstall would be needed .

uh oh..

$ yum repolist
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00
adobe-linux-i386 17/17
epel | 3.4 kB 00:00
livna | 2.4 kB 00:00
rpmforge | 1.1 kB 00:00
rpmforge 9713/9713
rpmfusion-free-updates | 3.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 3.8 kB 00:00
skype | 951 B 00:00
skype 1/1
updates/metalink | 10 kB 00:00
repo id repo name status
adobe-linux-i386 Adobe Systems Incorporated enabled: 17
epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 enabled: 3,769
fedora Fedora 11 - i386 enabled: 13,289
livna rpm.livna.org for 11 - i386 enabled: 3
rpmforge Red Hat Enterprise 11 - RPMforge.net - enabled: 9,713
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Free enabled: 377
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Free - Upda enabled: 751
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Nonfree enabled: 110
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Nonfree - U enabled: 452
skype Skype Repository enabled: 1
updates Fedora 11 - i386 - Updates enabled: 6,301
repolist: 34,783