Geesh... I *finally* found the problem.  I my X log, there was a line
mentioning "LoadKernelModule No such file or directory".  When I
started Googling for that, I finally wound up looking at some source
code for XFree86.  It was trying to pull the modprobe path from the
file /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe which was pointing it to
/sbin/modprobe.  Even though I followed the LFS instructions, my
modprobe wound up in /usr/sbin/modprobe (who knows, maybe I had a typo
when installing module init tools).  I then created a symlink for
/sbin/modprobe to /usr/sbin/modprobe, and everything fired right up. 
Man what a journey...

> Just a note -- in that xorg.conf you try to load both GLX and COMPOSITE.  To
> get X to load with both of them on, you need the line
>     Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
> somewhere.  I have it in my device section; otherwise the nVidia driver
> refuses to start.

Thanks for the tip.  I'll keep that in mind for the future. 

Thanks all, 
Steve
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