How do I get aptitude to unhold???

["Dennis G. Wicks" <wix@eskimo.com>]

Yeah, it should be simple, but it isn't doing it!

I have a whole bunch of packages held from back when I 
had a buggy apt-get and aptitude and now I want to 
upgrade and I can't get them unheld. Where is that list 
at? Is there any way I can just go delete the list/file?

This is what I do:

     aptitude unhold sysvinit <etc.>
and  aptitude -f unhold sysvinit <etc.>

No joy!

TIA,
Dennis