debian speakup emacs upgrade

[Jude DaShiell]

I had used the shane etch kernel and iso to install what debian I have 
here.  On the etch level, it's possible to install emacs and add-ons to 
emacs with no problems.  However upgrading to lenny installs new emacs 
packages and these fail to install inside of emacs with several dpkg 
complaints. So that leaves me with a choice.  I already have jove 
installed and am getting to grips with it.  I could find the emacs 
packages that would have been installed for etch and install them on this 
lenny system theoretically then put the forbid directives in for all of 
those packages but I don't know whether or not that will break one or more 
other things on the system that are now working properly.  The weird thing 
about these dpkg errors is that dpkg is looping and failing repeatedly 
which leads me to believe it's happening because of an unhandled exception 
that's being thrown.  Any other ideas?