As I don't have nvidia hardware, I'm not likely to be able to help with any 
underlying problems.
I hadn't realised there was common practice for people to be installing non 
Ubuntu versions of these pacakges.

If there are bugs with the Ubuntu shipped verison of the drivers, please
find the existing bug which matches your symptoms exactly, or open a new
one. Often part of the debugging process will be to produce a "propper"
.deb package of a newer driver to test, which shouldn't suffer the kind
of conflicts you'll get using tools like automatix.

uptate-initramfs causing breakage may indicates that the modules you
have installed have corrupted / conflicted with those already installed.
update-initramfs copies various modules (including some of the agp
drivers and dri modules etc..) to the ram disk where some modules load
from, so you may not have been loading them before now.

update-initramfs -u should uptate due initrd corresponding to the
currently running kernel. I don't know why its updating different files
each time you booted.

If you're having issues still, I'd suggest using aptitude to remove and
re-install the latest kernel (linux-image, linux-restricted-modules and
linux-ubuntu-moduels at least).

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Hidden file does not get removed when switching from 
nvidia-glx-new/nvidia-glx-legacy to nvidia-glx causing X not to start due to 
mismatch of versions
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106217
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