NVIDIA driver installation the Debian way, with some quirks

[Seally]

I am trying to install the non-free NVIDIA drivers. I have read the guide here http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers but what they didn't mention is what to do when you have a graphics card that isn't supported in Debian Lenny's repo driver version.
I have the GeForce GTS 250, which isn't listed under the 173.14.09 (the stable repo version) supported VGA cards list. The version I need can be found in Sid and Squeeze (195.36.24 currently). If I add the Sid repository, it seems to work but it returns a whole lot of other unrelated package updates and its really annoying since I don't want to change to Sid yet. So how do I keep the rest of my packages under Debian lenny with only the minimal amount of packages to be under Sid. I tried APT pinning once but the standard '*' won't work unless if it's alone in the 'Package' line. To clarify, a line like

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Package: nvidia-*

would get ignored.
I would also need a list of required packages and dependencies that must be installed from Debian sid to get this to work. The documentation for APT didn't help much. I got really confused there.
I can usually get around this problem by using the NVIDIA way but then I can't boot into Gnome GUI at all under other kernel versions except the one I compiled it for, unless I use the terminal to restore the Xorg stock drivers.

Any help would be appreciated.

[fsmithred]

You can install the driver the nvidia way for multiple kernels.

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sh NVIDIA-whatever.run -K -k <some-other-kernel-version>

Run the script with the --help option for help or the -A option for advanced help.

[milomak]

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=10812