.deb boinc-client error

[galen at flightsimhq.org]

synaptic reports
E: boinc-client: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1


also
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root       43 2007-02-13 13:38 global_prefs_override.xml ->
/etc/boinc-client/global_prefs_override.xml
is a bad link


this package errors blocks all my updates now,

I did
# dpkg --configure -a
but it did not fix.
Tried to uninstall boinc-client, it would not

please advise