No public key is installed; no way to check it packages from repo are
secure! This is just a warning!

> I have gone through synoptic to remove wine (wanted to run IE because of a
> couple of sites...GunBound, and University of Phoenix because both of them
> don't play nice with FF or Epiphany).

Easy way to get IE5/6 working in Linux. This is a self contained package
that uses wine but installs via a simple script.

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

Not sure if I got it all though,
> because that was several boots ago that I removed it. Is there a way to
> check and see what all I have installed in a format that can be printed or
> saved to a log file so I can send it out to have someone who knows wtf they
> are doing help?

Install "apt-show-versions"

$ sudo apt-get install apt-show-versions

Then redirect the output to a file (out.txt)

$ apt-show-versions >out.txt