After doing the update, what happened was the nvidia drivers for my card failed to work correctly. I suspect that what happened was the update was done in two stages, and my impatience might have caused the issue. Anyway, I will describe what I saw and what I did to correct it.
First, when the update hit my machine, it appeared to me that the Update Manager GUI was not working correctly, so I killed it and opened up a terminal (I'm more comfortable working in a terminal anyway). I did the following:
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apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
When my system came up, I was greeted with the ! icon from the Update Manager indicating that there were updates available. I opened it up, and sure enough it listed around 600+ more packages that needed to be upgraded. I went ahead and chose to install the updates, and went about my merry way. When it was done, I went ahead and did a reboot (old Windows habit) and low-and-behold, the X server would not start. I ran the following and tried to reboot again.
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sudo nvidia-xconfig
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ls /var/cache/apt/archives/nvid*
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sudo cp -v /var/cache/apt/archives/nvid*302* /root/
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sudo su -
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dpkg -i *.deb
Again, this may have been my mistake and my fault, but I thought that others may possibly learn from this and maybe be able to correct any problems that they might have. I suspect that what happened was the updated nvidia packages got installed prior to the newer kernel packages being installed.