wicd 1.6.2.2 not finding home wireless network

after a wicd upgrade it would only show <hidden> network but would not connect automatically. I had to enter find hidden network manually and then it would connect. That became annoyning so I tried to reinstall but no change so tried to force ver. 1.6.2.1.1 and I got

guy@ubuntu-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install wicd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  network-manager network-manager-gnome
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  wicd
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 394kB of archives.
After this operation, 49.2kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Err http://apt.wicd.net hardy/extras wicd 1.6.2.1-1
  403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch http://apt.wicd.net/pool/extras/w/wicd/wicd_1.6.2.1-1_all.deb 403 Forbidden
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
guy@ubuntu-laptop:~$

I removed wicd and went back to nm and with each attempt to get wicd back I get the same message?
Trying through synaptic I would get
Err http://apt.wicd.net hardy/extras wicd 1.6.2.1-1
  403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch http://apt.wicd.net/pool/extras/w/wicd/wicd_1.6.2.1-1_all.deb 403 Forbidden
The previous was with the console.

Thankyou in advance
Guy