rpm db screwed up..

[Benjamin Woo <bwoo mti com>]

for some reason, i'm constantly getting the following errors:

[root@huey user]# rpm -Uvh rpm-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm 
error: failed dependencies:
	gawk   is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	fileutils   is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	textutils   is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	sh-utils   is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	mktemp   is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	popt is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	bzip2 >= 0.9.0c-2 is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	/bin/sh   is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	ld-linux.so.2 is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	libbz2.so.0 is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	libc.so.6 is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	libdb.so.2 is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	libz.so.1 is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	/bin/bash is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	/bin/sh is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
	libdb.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x

yet i know that the dependencies ARE installed and working..

can anyone help?