gnome is testing appears broken

[Brendan J Simon <brendan.simon@bigpond.com>]

I am trying to install gnome on my PowerBook 17 which is running 
testing.  Unfortunately I can't get gnome-session to run at all.  I have 
used gnome 1.4 in the past on powerpc and intel machines and have been 
very happy.  It seems testing has a mixture of gnome 2.2 and 2.4 and 
some of the packages seem to conflict with each other.  Also I have read 
that there have been some problems with powerpc ports which is very sad.

What is the most stable and/or recent version of Gnome that runs on 
powerpc machines (1.4, 2.2, 2.4, other) ?

How do I install that version of Gnome ?

I am having trouble with the new sawfish too.  I'm not sure if all this 
is realted or not.  Do I need to set SESSION_MANAGER or is this done 
automatically???  Someone suggested trying metacity but I wasn't that 
impressed.  icewm was a little better but I am used to my sawfish theme.

Thanks for any help.  I am very frustrated at the moment :(
Cheers,
Brendan Simon.