problem erasing

["Henricus J. Holtman" <clfest sirius com>]

I seem to have a problem erasing several packages.  For example:

[root@localhost clfest]# rpm -qa | grep emacs 
emacs-20.3-15
emacs-20.7-1
emacs-X11-20.7-1
[root@localhost clfest]# rpm -e emacs-20.3-15
[root@localhost clfest]# rpm -qa | grep emacs
emacs-20.3-15
emacs-20.7-1
emacs-X11-20.7-1

I have RedHat 6.0 with rpm-3.0.6-6x.  I also have tried rpm -e
--allmatches,
but no dice.  It seems to happen whether or not I --rebuilddb. Can
someone point
me to explanatory material/explain what is happening?  Is there some way
I can
manually set my db/system straight and erase the offending packages? 
For example
would rpm -ql tell me the files that I should erase, and rpm -e --justdb
clear the
data base?  Is there anything else that I should do or watch out for? 
Is there
a simpler way?

			Thanx,
			Henricus