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[Craig Ringer]

  > A restriction on my question may be that I use a Winmodem (God 
forbid! But it's a fact). I undrstand that this will restrict upgrading 
the version of Debian but should not affect upgrading Debian Packages.

X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-debian-linux-gnu)

Looks like you have your winmodem running fine under linux, in which 
case the suggestions of others (the standard debian upgrade mechanism) 
will work fine. Debian is very good about leaving your kernel untouched, 
so there should be no effect on the winmodem drivers unless you choose 
to start using a newer kernel. If you do that, you simply need to 
reinstall the drivers for the new kernel (usually) or maybe get a 
version of the driver for that kernel.

If I'm making the wrong assumption from your X-Mailer header and the box 
does not have a modem working under linux, just bring it along to the 
next PLUG meeting at UCC and you can upgrade it over the network.

Craig