i don't really know what the problem was. i downgraded back to 3.2-6 and today i reinstalled 3.3-1 and everything worked fine. right now i am upgrading a couple of other systems, so it will be interesting to see if the problem reoccurs. btw, i did try to update the font directories by hand yesterday when i had problems, but i still couldn't get the x server to start. strange.
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