Broken debconf!

[Scott Bronson <bronson@trestle.com>]

I just tried to apt-get upgrade my Woody system (last upgrade
was probably a week ago).  debconf now refuses to be configured,
complaining of a missing "value" routine in Question.pm.

So, I removed debconf entirely (ignoring dependencies),
downloaded debconf_0.4.02.deb off the FTP site, and tried

	vesper:/home/bronson# dpkg --install debconf_0.4.02.deb 
	(Reading database ... 51126 files and directories currently installed.)
	Preparing to replace debconf 0.4.02 (using debconf_0.4.02.deb) ...
	grep: Debian::DebConf: No such file or directory
	Unpacking replacement debconf ...
	Setting up debconf (0.4.02) ...
	Can't locate object method "value" via package "Debian::DebConf::Question" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 31.
	dpkg: error processing debconf (--install):
	 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
	Errors were encountered while processing:
	 debconf

Now I don't know what to do.  It won't install itself.  How can I fix
this?

Thanks,

	- Scott