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On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 17:26 -0700, W. Ekkehard Blanz wrote:
> 
> Now that I got over this hump, my next step is to read up more on generating 
> footprints to get my odd-ball elements taken care of and see what I got wrong 
> there.

http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:pcb_footprints

Many additional footprints are available here:

http://www.gedasymbols.org/

http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/pcb-footprint-list.html

For newlib footprints we have this verbose guide:

http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/land_patterns_20070818.pdf

Or my summary and a generator script

http://www.ssalewski.de/SFG.html.en

There are more generators available, footgen script, or graphical online
generators like 

http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/dj_delorie/tools/2pad.html

Or you can create footprints from inside pcb program described here

http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_tips#how_do_i_edit_change_an_existing_footprint

I recommend ignoring the legacy m4 footprints for now, there should be
newlib copies for all of them shipped with pcb.