After doing a recent apt-get update; apt-get upgrade

My system has been having trouble.  I tried removing
the offending packages and reinstalling yet I seem 
to have the same problem..  Anybody have a solution
for this???  


apt-get -f install mozilla
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  mozilla-browser mozilla-mailnews 
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  mozilla-psm 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mozilla mozilla-browser 
1 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
2 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 7843kB/9460kB of archives. After unpacking 18.8MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Get:1 http://archive.progeny.com updates/newton/ mozilla 2:0.9.1-2.0progeny1 [9696B]
Get:2 http://archive.progeny.com updates/newton/ mozilla-browser 2:0.9.1-2.0progeny1 
[7833kB]
Fetched 7843kB in 1m46s (73.7kB/s)                                            
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-mailnews_2%3a0.9.1-2.0progeny1_i386.deb not a valid 
DEB package.
(Reading database ... 80053 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mozilla-psm ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-removal script: Exec format error
dpkg: error processing mozilla-psm (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mozilla-psm
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



 dpkg --force-all -i 
/var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-psm_2%3a0.9.1-2.0progeny1_i386.deb 
Selecting previously deselected package mozilla-psm.
(Reading database ... 80053 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mozilla-psm 1:0.8-0.1 (using 
.../mozilla-psm_2%3a0.9.1-2.0progeny1_i386.deb)
...
Unpacking replacement mozilla-psm ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old post-removal script: Exec format errordpkg: 
warning - old
post-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-psm_2%3a0.9.1-2.0progeny1_i386.deb
(--install):
 there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-psm_2%3a0.9.1-2.0progeny1_i386.deb




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