Okay, I managed to get the new forcedeth drivers (ended up just getting the newly-released 2.6.2 kernel) working and everything with that is running perfectly, the problem now is the display drivers.
I downloaded the newest nvidia drivers (1.0.5336) and went to install them,only to find that they couldn't install the kernel module (it goes through building the interface fine and then chokes).
if I run the NVIDIA installer with the --kernel-name= option, then the module is built and supposedly installed, but if you start X using the new nVidia driver then X crashes saying that it couldn't initilize the module
Help please!