apt-get segfaulting

[Tiarnan O Corrain <ocorrain@esatclear.ie>]

Hey All,

many thanks to those who gave advice on installing kernel 2.4 on my
laptop. Turned out the problem was that I hadn't set the processor
type in the kernel configuration...

Now a new difficult rears its ugly head. Apt-get is segfaulting under
the new kernel. When I try (for example) 
    apt-get install mpg123, the
program segfaults immediately. Ditto with 
	apt-get remove xxx

Any ideas? Or methods of upgrading / correcting the faulty version of
apt-get without using apt-get?

Tiarnan