Installing a package from an older distribution

[jennyw <jennyw@dangerousideas.com>]

I had trouble running the mutt package that comes with sarge, so I went 
back to the one in woody (by editing sources.list, including stable and 
commenting out the testing lines).  Things work great now, but I would 
like to keep the older version of mutt when I do a dist-upgrade. Is there 
a way to mark it so that it doesn't get upgraded?

Also, is there a better way to get a package from another distribution 
than rewriting sources.list?  I see that there's a -t option for apt, but 
this doesn't seem to have an effect. For example, before editing 
sources.list, I tried apt-get -t stable mutt.  This went for the testing 
version instead.

Thanks!

Jen