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Here's the output you requested:

This confirmed my suspicion. You do have a bad download of at least that one package.
I can't help you much with the sources of a bad download. Maybe it's even a known problem/ limitation of your network connection/ infrastructure.
You should selectively delete the corrupt files or clean your complete package cache.

Is it possible that there is iso corruption from the particular source that I've downloaded from? Should I try getting the iso from a different mirror?

I'm not talking about the installation media. Bad downloads of the installation image would (usually) have had "symptoms" earlier. Like booting the burned cdrom or during the installation process.
The problem lies with the package files downloaded from the mirror when you try to install that package.

MikeCindi wrote:The excluded xorg-server* files also have the MD5 mismatch (as does multiple other packages like gkrellm, libwdm, phonon, ...). I am behind a proxy but I'm not sure that is the problem as most other packages don't have this problem.

This is most probably a problem with your internet connection. Run and try downloading again. If that doesn't work, try downloading directly from the repository, without using slapt-get and check the md5sum of the downloaded packages against the ones reported on the server.

I've resorted to downloading using gftp. This is very tedious though as many packages pull a lot of dependencies. What I don't understand is why certain packages consistently don't download properly. Those packages will all be about 4k in size via slapt-get/gslapt yet I can get a valid download with a ftp client.

Tomorrow I'll try a different route of connecting to the internet (directly to the router vs. through the proxy).

After trying a few options and reloading salixOS a few times I have been unable to get around this md5sum mismatch. It is consistently the same files when trying to install via glsapt/slapt-get yet I can manually download and install them. Perhaps I'll try again with the next release.

Maybe you'll have better luck using a mirror that supports ftp instead of http. You can find a list of all mirrors here: http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/Download

Edit your /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc accordingly and try again. It's unlikely that your proxy issues will be fixed by any salix next release.

BTW: To avoid md5sum mismatch at ISO downloads I suggest to use the torrent. AFAIK it checks every single chunk after downloading it.

Perhaps I was not clear and/or used poor terminology. I do not have a proxy issue otherwise it would be a uniform problem with any download and I would not be able to use ftp to correct it which I can. I have tried using the ftp sites and get the same problem with the same files. I have tried bypassing the proxy and it made no difference. The salixOS iso download has the correct md5sum. The message from gslapt is that there is a MD5 mismatch and when I look at the file size with any file(s) that gives that error it's about 4K. Since this thread was started by someone else with the same issue it is not unique to me.