No, it wasn’‘t a nightly. It was the very public 2.6.2 release, the first I found on this website. That’'s a tarball. And I did test it all out on a test machine. And it worked there. This was a random failure, nothing that I had experienced while testing.
Using Debian Linux 3.1. I’‘m not aware of any deb packages for Wildfire. But since Debian’'s latest stable is anything but up-to-date I prefer using publically available web services directly from the vendor.