I really need some help here udevhotplugusbusbmount etc etc. 2030

That depends what the CD was. There are test releases of install CD's floating around that will install testing. Perhaps you should ask your friend what he actually gave you.

catetc-debianversion

Might be interesting too, but not definitive.

You are 100% mistaken. I update weekly and udev hasn't stopped working or complained about my kernel version and apt hasn't tried to pull a new kernel.

That's true.

etc-apt-sources.list

That's the version from unstable (and probably testing too, I have not checked). It also isn't from backports.org or some other place that provides updated packages for stable because it doesn't have a suffix on the version.

To get a list of the contents of a deb:

To see what packages each version includes:

I don't know for sure. It shouldn't have. For one thing it depends on a version of libc6 that is newer than the one stable shipped with, so it should have complained about that at least. It also conflicts with several things (hotplug, old versions of module-init-tools and hal) that would be installed on stable, so that should have generated some noise.

Unless of course you're really running testing or unstable and don't know it, which is seeming more and more likely.

-- - Bob Hauck - A proud member of the unhinged moonbat horde.