ACPI and reboot problems solved

[Lorenzo Prince]

Well, I fixed my laptop and now the power button not only runs the 
shutdown command properly, but the computer actually shuts all the way 
down properly.  Also, the 3-finger solute and the reboot command now 
work as expected.

Seems I did something very stupid.  Instead of backing up my files over 
the network and moving them back after install, I decided to simply try 
renaming /etc, /home and /root and removing /var, /usr/ /bin, /sbin and 
a fiew other things that I new if left in place would cause conflicts.  
Then I installed the test release without formatting the / partition.  
Apparently, there were still conflicts for some reason.  I discovered 
that the file /etc/redhat-release and rpm -qi redhat-release said 2 
different things.  I then actually copied all the omportant stuff to my 
server and reinstalled, this time formatting all partitions, and this 
time, SUCCESS!  So far, everything that I was having trouble with is 
working as expected.

Now to see if I still get the error in the Gnome volume control...

Thanks for the help,
Prince