Problem with installing nvidia drivers geforce2 go version 96 in Fedora 17 LXDE spin

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I had an issue with an updated kernel (3.4.0-1, I think), so I uninstalled it, and installed yum-versionlock to prevent further issues with upgrading the default kernel. Now, I have decided to install the nvidia glx driver, but the OS keeps pointing it to the kernel I uninstalled. The old kernel does not show up in grub, and I have been rebooting, switching run levels, and trying installs, uninstalls, re-installs, re-configures, everything I can think of, and now I am out of options. The laptop runs fine, it just needs the graphics driver, so I can free up cpu for other tasks (it is a pentium 3 1.17 GHz), as I will be using the computer (an old dell) for some light portable web design using Aptana and Gedit.

I just need it to run, lol. I am new to fedora, as I have been primarily using Ubuntu (relatively new to Linux in general, been using linux for a couple years,but have only been getting into advanced stuff recently).