Okay, I looked through the forums but didn't see anything that resembled this question before I posted.  Now that I have had a little more time to look around I see all the posts about setting up a lab.  I guess the answer to my question would have come up in these posts. 

Hope I didn't bore you too much.
Thanks anyway,
Cutaway

Yes, I did look there but now that I go through it again I am seeing more stuff (My GoogleFu is really off the last couple days).

Looking through again I found a Redhat 6.2 (http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/490) which the developer says has all the latest patches.  I think the key is to use the seach (imagine that).  Once I started seaching I noticed stuff like Fedora 3 systems.  (I need to slow down.)

This should be a great resource once some of the currently new appliances start showing vulnerabilities. Unfortunately I believe that VMWare will start to purge at some point or the developers will just update the current versions with patches and new releases.  Hopefully they will go with an archive so that these will still be available in the future.

Alas, what I was actually looking for, an image that was chalk full of know vulnerable services and OS vulnerabilities specificially developed for evaluation and pentest training is not really there.  The hunt is on, however.

Thanks for the help,
Don

The above Nepenthes Appliance will not work. Apparently the person who created this virtual machine used the Ubuntu 6.10 iso image which was not included in the zipped file. Therefore I removed the links previously posted. Guess, we have to keep looking.