Help! - F12 Nvidia boot errors

[Gary Waters]

Greetings from newbieland,

I tend to fall behind and upgrade Fedora every 2-3 versions down the 
line. I just installed F12, did some research on installing the nvida 
drivers. I have uninstalled nouveau and kmod-nvidia is also not 
installed. The proprietary nvidia driver appeared to install without any 
diffulties and appears to be working in system/preferences/nvidia 
x-server settings; however, I get the following bootup error messages:

checking for module nvidia.ko in fc12: failed
nvidia.ko for kernel 2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12x86_64 was not found
the nvidia driver will not be enabled until one is found

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I've done a lot of googling and 
experimenting. Could this have something to do with xorg.conf? I have 
been reading so many different "solutions" that I'm beginning to feel 
vapourlocked and would rather get advice here before I screw things up more.

Thanks!

Gary