please help - i cant get rpm 4.0 to use my old database

[benkenward lycosmail com]

i'd be really grateful if anyone could tell me what i have done wrong.

i was using rpm version 3.0.4.

i upgraded to 4.0 with:

# rpm -U rpm-4.0-6x.i386.rpm
# cd /var/lib/rpm
# rpm --updatedb

but anything i try and do with rpm says:

	cannot open Name index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
	
	--> The rpm database cannot be opened in db3 format.
	    If you have just upgraded the rpm package you need to convert
	    your database to db3 format by running "rpm --rebuilddb" as root.

but i already did that, several times.

luckily i managed to do:

# rpm --force --nodeps -i rpm-3.0.4-0.48.i386.rpm

to get the old rpm working.

i ugraded again to the 4.0, and updated the database. this time there are
no error messages, but the only package that rpm knows exists is itself.

can anyone help?

thanks,

ben