install hosed... apt not working anymore

[Till Varoquaux]

here is a pretty serious one i can't uninstall sun-j2sdk and i can't install 
anything else until it gets fixed
here is the ouput:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
sun-j2sdk1.5.0
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 96 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 140MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 122467 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sun-j2sdk1.5.0 ...
rm: cannot remove `/usr/bin/apt': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing sun-j2sdk1.5.0 (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
sun-j2sdk1.5.0

i tried touching the "missing" files (hell java trying to remove is very 
wrong but i'm desparate my system is hosed anyways). ther's a whole bunch of 
them so i even went as far as coinning an ugly script together:

#!/bin/bash
errFile="not null"
until [ -z "$errFile" ]; do
for i in $(cat touchy); do
sudo touch $i
echo "touching:$i"
done
if ! sudo dpkg --force-all --remove sun-j2sdk1.5.0 2> out >/dev/null; then
errFile="$(head -n 1 out | sed -e"s|rm: cannot remove .\(.*\).:.*|\1|")"
echo "$errFile" | tee -a touchy
fi
done

but it loops on /usr/bin/javah. aparentky touching isn't enough here. help 
needed

till

p.s.: excuse me for the caps etc.. i'm typing from my breezy box and shift 
doesn't work.
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