libstring-approx-perl broke updating Woody to Sarge

[Lance Tagliapietra <lancetag@Luminet.net>]

Help!

I inadvertantly started upgrading my Woody system to Sarge when the new 
Sarge packages started showing up as security updates (I assume, since 
security.debian.org is in my apt sources list file).

In any case, I decided to go and attempt the upgrade, and have run into 
the following problem now when attempting to use apt-get or dpkg or 
aptitude:

dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 41026 
package `libstring-approx-perl':
 field name `Sectch' must be followed by colon

I'm kinda in a catch-22, since even dpkg -l will abort with that error, 
nor can I seem to install or remove packages, as that error will come 
up.

Note my oversight that I never did put "Sarge" in my sources.list.

Is there a way I can fix this without restoring from backup?
This is a m68k system.

cc: debain-user.

Thanks,

--Lance
LanceTag at Luminet dot net