Thanks for the help, your explanation made it easy to get all the proper components installed to get macports working properly.  The scite install is still having problems, but I'll get to that after I take care of one of your questions.

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> wrote:
May I ask what led you to www.d*****ports.com in the first place? I
understand that unfortunately it scores a rather higher PageRank
in Google... I wish it were not so, and I would like to know how to
change that.

I don't remember my exact search terms it has something like scite and mac os X and maybe even darwin in one of the searches but after I read your response I even tried macports scite and the d*****ports.com page entry came up as the first one.  We have a group of folks at work who do search engine optimization I'll ask them for some advice.  If I get any, I'll pass it on. 

To upgrade from DarwinPorts to MacPorts, or MacPorts to any future
version, run "sudo port selfupdate". Sounds like you already did this
so you should already have MacPorts 1.6.0.

I used the macports 1.6 dmg file to install over the top of what I had before.  I know you said I didn't have to, but the idea of a rogue site made me a little nervous.
 
You seem to have part but not all of X11 installed. You need both the
X11 User package from the Mac OS X DVD (which accounts for X11.app in
your Utilities folder) and the X11 SDK package from Xcode (which is
the part that lets you build other software for X11). Install X11
User first (you probably already have it), then install the latest
Xcode for your OS, and make sure to tell it to install the X11 SDK as
well.

All is well with x11.  once I was using the installation instructions from the macports site, fixing the issue was relatively easy.

To install any port foo, just run "sudo port install foo". That's all
you need to do. You don't need to be in any particular directory. But
you may want to first see if there are any variants that you would
like to select. Run "port info foo" and "port variants foo".

Yes, you need to add /opt/local/bin and /opt/local/sbin to your PATH.
That is, the MacPorts installer should do so for you. Versions prior
to 1.6.0 did so for you. 1.6.0 has a bug where it does not do so for
you and you must do it manually. This will be fixed in the next version.

One of the installs put a .profile in my home directory once I sourced that from .bash_profile everything worked fine.

If you have any other questions please let us know. Welcome to MacPorts!

The scite install is still giving me problems.  Here is the output from my terminal session including every thing I did per the instructions to try to resolve the issue.  I guess I'll have to open a ticket?

--->  Fetching docbook-xsl
--->  Attempting to fetch docbook-xsl-1.72.0.tar.bz2 from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/docbook
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for docbook-xsl
Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for docbook-xsl-1.72.0.tar.bz2
Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for docbook-xsl-1.72.0.tar.bz2
Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for docbook-xsl-1.72.0.tar.bz2
Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file checksums
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gtk2 gtk-doc docbook-xsl libxml2 perl5.8 scrollkeeper docbook-xml docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xml-4.3 docbook-xml-4.4 docbook-xml-4.5 libxslt p5-xml-parser jpeg pango Xft2 xorg-xproto xorg-util-macros tiff
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
discovery:~ kandrews$ sudo port sync
Password:
discovery:~ kandrews$ sudo port install scite
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for docbook-xsl
Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for docbook-xsl-1.72.0.tar.bz2
Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for docbook-xsl-1.72.0.tar.bz2
Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for docbook-xsl-1.72.0.tar.bz2
Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file checksums
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gtk2 gtk-doc docbook-xsl libxml2 perl5.8 scrollkeeper docbook-xml docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xml-4.3 docbook-xml-4.4 docbook-xml-4.5 libxslt p5-xml-parser jpeg pango Xft2 xorg-xproto xorg-util-macros tiff
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
discovery:~ kandrews$ sudo port clean --dist scite
--->  Cleaning scite
discovery:~ kandrews$ sudo port install scite
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for docbook-xsl
Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for docbook-xsl-1.72.0.tar.bz2
Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for docbook-xsl-1.72.0.tar.bz2
Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for docbook-xsl-1.72.0.tar.bz2
Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file checksums
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gtk2 gtk-doc docbook-xsl libxml2 perl5.8 scrollkeeper docbook-xml docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xml-4.3 docbook-xml-4.4 docbook-xml-4.5 libxslt p5-xml-parser jpeg pango Xft2 xorg-xproto xorg-util-macros tiff
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.