Unless you have a specific reason not to I'd recommend going with the nvidia drivers currently in squeeze. The recent dkms versions make installation and upkeep very simple. I(n any case it sounds like the system things it has at least some of the nvidia (debian) driver packages partially installed. What's the output of
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aptitude search nvidia|egrep -v "^p |^v "
(Don't do anythhing until after you've posted the output. Cleaning it up may be a bit tricky since you already have drivers installed the nvidia way. Basically you need to uninstall those drivers, then clean up aptitude, then reinstall drivers, either via aptitude or usinf nvidia scripts.
Easiest way via aptitude is:
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aptitude -r install nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-settings
(The -r ensures that recommends are installed, in case you have that turned off). That will pull in everything you need.
If you relly need the newer nvidia drivers then you'll need to install the nvidia way, and you'll need to re-install whenever xorg or mesa gets updated.
In any case you need to get the current configuration cleaned up first.