I won't pretend to give you a real solution, but I've had no problems using Gerben Wierda's distribution of teTeX and related tools, rather than fink's. You might try that instead: <http://www.rna.nl/ii.html>.
Bennett
Hi Bennett.. I tried your alternative solution and installed GW's teTeX... still the same problem (same error message) with conversion to PDF via ps2pdf, however, dvipdfm can now convert to pdf even with the lmodern fonts.. so that's a big improvement and solves my problem.. I'm still puzzled by the error from ps2pdf though..
Thanks, nirmal
