OK:
Followed Alberto's suggestion. Results identical to before. Nothing in dmesg 
that looks relevant, can't modprobe nvidia (result was
FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.20-15-386/volatile/nvidia.ko': No such 
file or directory
FATAL: Error running install command for nvidia)

ran depmod, still can't modprobe nvidia, 
modprobe -n -v nvidia tells me nvidia depends on install /sbin/lrm-video nvidia 
but it still won't load

ran sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-15-386, then
/etc/init.d/kdm restart and it worked.

And to answer the envy question:
I tried envy because the ubuntu packages weren't working.
envy did not work, and I didn't like that I couldn't tell what it was doing 
without getting into the code - I didn't find a -v option to tell me step by 
step what it did as it did it. I didn't look very hard though.
As I recall it has an option to remove all old nvidia installations. I think 
that didn't work (not sure now). I also recall it had a 'remove envy' option, 
which failed somehow. So I don't really want to go that route - I'd prefer it 
if I could get the ubuntu packages working - but I did already do what Alberto 
suggested, which is use envy to (try to) undo whatever envy did.

I agree with Sitsofe, that it is a bug in linux-restricted-
modules-2.6.20, since that package is doing something that does not last
over a reboot.

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nvidia-glx installation is broken after reboot
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