Re: tetex 2.0.2: texttt font and hyphenation problems

> I did not install the tetex-texmfsrc package since it's my understanding
> from INSTALL that it's not really needed.

Correct.

> The first is that unrequested hyphenation patterns are being loaded. 

That should be easy to trace. Assuming that your format files are created
by fmtutil in /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c, just look at the file
latex.log in that directory. Maybe, some unwanted files have been loaded
(by traces of a different installation, e.g. TEXMFCNF variable, TEXINPUTS
variable, etc.).

> Running a file through latex results in the following:

It should look like this:

    This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
    (/t/2.0.2/tetex-texmf/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex
    LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
    Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, f
    innish, nohyphenation, loaded.
    (/t/2.0.2/tetex-texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
    ...

> French.  Does anyone have any ideas about why CZ and SK patterns are being
> loaded and why USenglish, German and French aren't even being mentioned?

A guess: you could have some TEXINPUTS variable like this:
  TEXINPUTS=.:$TEXMF/tex//:/some/thing/else

That would be wrong, because latex needs to look at texmf/tex/generic
before the rest of texmf/tex. There are duplicates in the texmf/tex tree, e.g.
  tex/cslatex/hyphen.cfg
  tex/generic/babel/hyphen.cfg
  tex/platex/config/hyphen.cfg

Only with the correct search paths, the formats will be created correctly.

> The biggest issue, however, is my second problem.  The cdrom.tex file
> mentioned above uses \texttt{whatever} or \tt{whatever} constructs to get
> the fixed-point typewriter font at various times.  When running the file
> through teTeX 2.0.2 I get the following.

Again, this looks like a broken latex format. Maybe, you just need to
recreate the format after unsetting some wrong variables.

Maybe, calling
  texconfig conf
gives you a hint.

Thomas