Strange apt-get behaviour...

[umrenic2@cc.UManitoba.CA]

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Guys,

I tried running apt-get on a potato system running kernel 2.2.12 this
afternoon, and when it finished downloading the Packages.gz files, apt-get
exited with this error message:

    Reading Package Lists... Error!
    E: Malformed Priority line
    E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1)
    E: Problem with MergeList
     /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potat
     o_main_binary-i386_Packages
    E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.  


I'm assuming that this might have something to do with incorrect
permissions being set or something along those lines.  

The only problem that I can see that I could have induced was the
accidental destruction of my suid.conf file a couple of days ago...  As
far as I know, that's the only thing that has changed on my system.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!!!