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Well, I think I did solve the problem.
After I posted I went in and set the site to debug mode. When I went back into the modules page I found that there was an error in one of the module folders which caused XOOPS to report a "missing file" error.
The error was in a module folder called "article". Apparently, when XOOPS loads all the module folders in the module administrator it goes through and alphabetically loads the directories. If it hits an error, it stops loading the rest of the folders as available to install.
This would make sense if "arm" would show available to install after you uninstall the module and "smartfaq" wouldn't because the folder with the missing file was "article" So alphabetically in the module folder these files would be listed
\arm
\article
\smartfaq
In this directory listing, XOOPS would load \arm folder, hit an error for missing file on \article and not load it or any other folders below it.
Not sure if anybody else has noticed this problem but if you have modules that dont show available to install, make sure to put XOOPS in debug and watch for a missing file error when you load the module administration page.
Cliff M.