Hello, pity, Drupal has recently changes way how translation is done. It doesn't use those 'translation packages' anymore, main translation effort is done on http://localize.drupal.org
It means locale-* subpackages of drupal are outdated, it also means that 'new' translation do not build these translation packages anymore. Now translation are split into into 'core' and the rest. 'core' means _one_ po file which has translations for all core modules, so this is different how the 'old' translation packages looked like -- it was a tarball with po files per each module of the drupal core. I haven't found a way how this 'new' translation files could work with current drupal locale-* subpackages... :/ For example locale-fr is from 2009, but 'new' translation is very recent, old couple of days. jirib
