Well after 40 minutes of trying to figure out why The Apache toaster was failing, I decided to see if apache_1.3.31 was still available -- it wasn't.
I changed the Apache.pm file to read:
apache_1.3.33 and it worked, until it hit the mod_ssl-2.8.19-1.3.31 install -- then it failed again..
It seems that modssl.org is not working. I located a mirror site and changed line 166 to reflect it.
Worked. again ...
Man this is slow going.
But I love the package and the idea --- Thanx Davidb for pointing this out to me.