After a few bumps in the road I have Synaptic running under V5. It is not the latest release in the repository (unresolved dependencies!) but it is close. The version is 0.62.5 dated Mar 31, 2009
http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/s/...u2.1_armel.deb. It required two dependencies libept0
http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/li...ntu1_armel.deband libvte9 (this was the dependency that kept me from installing 0.62.7, and the version that I found wasn't in the repository I had to use a common version from here
http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/l...ommon/download) that I installed manually (no internet connection at work). When I get back home with wifi, I will attempt to use synaptic to access the default repository.