uninstall openpkg?

[v8625]

I updated kernel on RedHat 9.0 from stock kernel 2.4.20-8 to 2.6.7. 
Which rendered my rpm package database inoperable. In fact, I can't run 
any rpm commands now, that is I run them, but all I get is the following 
  message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# rpm -vv -rebuilddb
+----------------------------------Warning------------------------------------+
| The "/usr/bin/rpm" command is deprecated since OpenPKG 2.0 
      |
| because of namespace and integration reasons. The command will be 
finally   |
| removed in OpenPKG 2.1, so please start using the new canonical 
command     |
| "/usr/bin/openpkg rpm" instead. Thanks. 
      |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

This basically tells me that openpkg is also messed up. How do I get 
this resolved? Any tricks to reinstall the database? Something like
rpm -i --justdb --nodeps --noorder --ignorearch --noscripts \
       --notriggers --ignoresize --force --dbpath /blah-blah-blah*.rpm ?
Should I do it under 2.6.7 or with LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 or 2.4.1?
Should I uninstall openpkg first? It was installed from source after the 
kernel upgrade - using openpkg "bootstrap" procedure.
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