You're using debian stable, which is absolutely ancient, I suggest that you upgrade a bit. The quality of software has improved over the intervening few years.
Assuming you've got a nice fast adsl connection, do the following:
1. Update /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the testing release. This is mine...
It's been mentioned before on the list, but if you've got a nice *slow* ADSL connection, use a line like the following for sources.list, disconnect from your normal connection, and reconnect with the Jetstream Games login:
deb ftp://ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz/debian testing main
You may want to add contrib and non-free to the end of the line. This gets you full Jetstream speeds for free, even on a Jetstart plan.
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This will at least get you to gnome 2.4. The current release is 2.6 which I think you still need to build from source at www.gnome.org for debian releases.
Gnome 2.6 is in unstable, which seems to be working pretty well as of my update a couple of days ago. In my opinion it's well worth the upgrade.
Debian testing/unstable also comes with aptitude, which is indispensable.
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