Blocker - rpm fails to install files

Just tried to fetch a file from the network. No 'wget' in system. There are a number of packages I add to each newly installed build, including the rpm which gives me 'wget'. In 20090307 my "rpm apply" shows such rpms being installed o.k. -- but the *files* from within the rpm packages never get installed in their target directories. This exact same procedure worked correctly for me with 20090306.img. mikus