flashplugin-nonfree broken

[Christopher Biessener]

I just finished skimming through the archives...  I have not seen 
similar 10.04 upgrade issues.
I was running 8.04 happily and wanted the new firefox and OpenOffice 
with ubuntu's blessing instead of manually installing them, so I chose 
to upgrade to the new LTS.  Everything went fine with one exception:

    my 10.0.1.218+really9.0.262.0ubuntu1 package is broken

Synaptic will not fix it, it's output from "Complete Removal" follows:

    dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--purge):
      Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
      reinstall it before attempting a removal.
    Errors were encountered while processing:
      flashplugin-nonfree

The "Reinstall" option is greyed out.  I cannot reinstall it.  I cannot 
remove it.  Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Christopher