James Strandboge has posted updated installation instructions for his Gnome 2.2 backport:

Add to sources.list one of these:
deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody gnome2.2/
deb http://mirror.raw.no/ gnome2.2/

and have ONLY these Official woody lines (using an appropriate mirror):
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

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