hald chokes after breezy->dapper update

[Art Alexion]

As I had feared, my breezy to dapper update had some annoying problems.  Most 
have been fixed.  Some I can't solve by myself.  First the easy stuff.

1. I had a systray applet with 3 simple bars that gave a reasonable 
approximation of CPU, memory, and swap usage, while taking up little space.  
I don't remember the name of the app, and nothing in my current menus bring 
it up.

2. I had a systray applet with two box graphs that monitored network and/or 
Internet traffic.  Again, I don't remember the name of the app, and nothing 
in my current menus bring it up.

3. Here is the hardest and most important problem.  The init.d sript that 
initiates hald (the Hardware Application Layer daemon) chokes and stall my 
boot with the message "ll does not exist".  After repeatedly pressing ctrl+c 
and ctrl+d, booting proceeds after giving me a return code of 2 on the 
script.  If I try to run the script from a konsole window using "restart", I 
get a locked konsole on "starting hald..."

The result that I have noticed is that my iPod does not appear on the desktop, 
and if I try to manually mount it to sda1, amarok can't see it.

Please help.  I am at my wit's end on this.
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