fedora 3 and yum

Hey, anyone out there with FC3 experience yum just hanging? I tried a really basic "yum install aterm" and it just hangs. No searching for libraries or anything. no nerbose option as far as I know (it's rather verbose by nature) so I'm not sure if I just missed the memo or if I need to do something new to it before it will work. my conf file looks alarmingly empty. Does it just come blank in this version?

On the bright side: I finally got FC3 up and running.

I was on Suse personal 9.1 yesterday and I'm sorry to say (suse folks) that I hated it. Maybe pro would have been a different story. Ahh well. Back to fedora.