Apt-get (dselect) wants to remove everything, by default

[Bryan Scaringe <scaringe@mediaone.net>]

Another stupid dselect question:

I have upgraded my system to potato.  Now, whenever I start up dselect,
(using apt-get, and set to the unstable branch), nearly everything
is set to "remove" by default.  I'm talking about required stuff
like "bash" and "tar"!  I know I can go through by hand and fix it,
but this seems like an ass-backwards way.  If I wanted to remove a
package,
I'd have to fix everything by hand or risk trashing damn-near everything
on my system.  Considering the number of packages, that could take days.

So:  What am I doing wrong?  How do I get dselect to leave everything
as is, by default, and only deal with those packages that I specifically
want to remove/install (and the correcponding dependencies/conlicts)?

Thanks,
	Bryan