Argh! **** Manrake!

[Trillian]

Ok, I've installed manrake on my comp (or attempted to) on my comp about 5 times over the past year. My first install when smoothly,every thing worked, ect. Then I decided to try YDL. I hated that, the package manager seemed a mess to me. So I abondoned that for mandrake with in a week. I installed. I booted. It stalled on finding depenencys. I though odd.. and moved on the gentoo to find more ways to wreak havoc on my hard drive. I got that all up and running smoothly. I loved it. I decided that after about a month, I was going to try and investigate why mandrake wasn't booting (after all, it had before on the fist install...). I installed. I booted. It stalled yet again. I then went to see if I'd give ydl another shoot. (3.0.1 patch came out). I installed, and hated. I went back to trying to install mandrake... (ok, you get the idea. =) )

Any suggestions on how to get it from stalling on "find dependencies?