Hi,
I'm not sure where I should be posting this, so if it should be somewhere else, feel free to let me know.
I refreshed my repositories in synaptic today and noticed that the "New in repository" category contained linux-image-linuxlite-4.4.0 and linux-headers-linuxlite-4.4.0. I installed them and set up my soft-links vmlinuz and initrd.img to point to them. Updated grub and rebooted. Result: everything is running perfectly!!
BTW: who is responsible for creating these packages?
Whoever it is: Nice job!!
Ciao
Little Walter