More problems after delleting kernel

[stan]

Last weekend I inadvertantly dleted the kernel on my 10.04 system. Thanks
to some helpful people on this list, I was able to reinstlal it. However,
then I had issues with X which I traced down to issues with the nvidiia
kernel module.

By dleteing and reinstalling some packages (can't remebr whicH0 I was able
to get decent resolution back in X. 

Everything worked OK till I rebooted this weekend, and now, I cna't seem to
get this module to load no mater what I do. Here is a script of what
happens when I try to reinstall, what I think, are the correct modules.


Script started on Sun 01 May 2011 05:43:55 PM EDT
root at ubuntu:~# ./foo
Reading package lists... 0%Reading package lists... 0%Reading package lists... 2%Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 0%Building dependency tree... 0%Building dependency tree... 50%Building dependency tree... 50%Building dependency tree... 64%Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... 0%Reading state information... 0%Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dkms nvidia-173-modaliases nvidia-96-modaliases nvidia-common nvidia-current
  nvidia-current-modaliases nvidia-settings
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/24.3MB of archives.
After this operation, 75.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package dkms.
(Reading database ... (Reading database ... 5%(Reading database ... 10%(Reading database ... 15%(Reading database ... 20%(Reading database ... 25%(Reading database ... 30%(Reading database ... 35%(Reading database ... 40%(Reading database ... 45%(Reading database ... 50%(Reading database ... 55%(Reading database ... 60%(Reading database ... 65%(Reading database ... 70%(Reading database ... 75%(Reading database ... 80%(Reading database ... 85%(Reading database ... 90%(Reading database ... 95%(Reading database ... 100%(Reading database ... 372241 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking dkms (from .../dkms_2.1.1.2-2fakesync1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-173-modaliases.
Unpacking nvidia-173-modaliases (from .../nvidia-173-modaliases_173.14.22-0ubuntu11_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-96-modaliases.
Unpacking nvidia-96-modaliases (from .../nvidia-96-modaliases_96.43.17-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-current-modaliases.
Unpacking nvidia-current-modaliases (from .../nvidia-current-modaliases_195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-common.
Unpacking nvidia-common (from .../nvidia-common_0.2.23_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-current.
Unpacking nvidia-current (from .../nvidia-current_195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-settings.
Unpacking nvidia-settings (from .../nvidia-settings_195.36.08-0ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up dkms (2.1.1.2-2fakesync1) ...

Setting up nvidia-173-modaliases (173.14.22-0ubuntu11) ...
Setting up nvidia-96-modaliases (96.43.17-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up nvidia-current-modaliases (195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04) ...
Setting up nvidia-common (0.2.23) ...

Setting up nvidia-current (195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL.conf (gl_conf) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/lib32/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 because associated file /usr/lib32/nvidia-current/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 (of link group gl_conf) doesn't exist.
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/lib32/libvdpau_nvidia.so because associated file /usr/lib32/nvidia-current/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so (of link group gl_conf) doesn't exist.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Loading new nvidia-current-195.36.24 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 2.6.32-31-generic
Building for architecture i686
Building initial module for 2.6.32-31-generic
Done.

nvidia-current.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-31-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod...........

DKMS: install Completed.

Setting up nvidia-settings (195.36.08-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for python-central ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-31-generic
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Compiling /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/config_manager/implementations/svn_vcs.py ...
SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax', ('/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/config_manager/implementations/svn_vcs.py', 49, 7, '    def get_test_repo(self):\n'))

root at ubuntu:~# exit

Script done on Sun 01 May 2011 05:46:30 PM EDT

Can some kind soul jelp me get my machine back in a usable state?

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