I believe that I have successfully renamed the GDAL libraries (as a result of our recent discussions) on a local copy of the gdal 1.3.1 debian folder on my local computer. I am rebuilding the packages and testing now. Just didnt want others to duplicate work unnecessarily. If the tests go well, I will commit my changes. The new libgdal packages will be libgdal1-1.3.1 / libgdal1-1.3.1-dev etc. Thanks Jon