[Evolution] Dreaded "Cannot access Bonobo/Config Database on wombat: (IDL:OAF/General Error 1.0)

[Hamish Bain <hamish_bain clear net nz>]

has suddenly occurred after updating Ximian Desktop packages via Red 
Carpet.... (I'm on LM 8.0 btw) OK, classic bonehead mistake: tried to do too 
many....  however here I am totally without my beloved Evo.  Prior glitch 
(about 10 days ago) is nothing compared to this.  Ettore had asked for a 
stack trace, for which I was just preparing and upgrading Bug Buddy.  

Have tried everything ever mentioned on the List & from Devzone (from Mozilla 
lib to PATHS to oaf-slays to updating libnspr4 to multiples copies, etc.) . 
Nothing helps.   But I guess this could be a new "packaging" error?  Here's 
the list of most of what I Red Carpeted (more fool me) - there ARE more 
(shame):-  

bash-2.05-2mdk.i586.rpm
glibc-2.2.2-6.1mdk.i586.rpm
iptables-1.2.4-1.2mdk.i586.rpm
ldconfig-2.2.2-6.1mdk.i586.rpm
libldap1-1.2.12-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
sane-1.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm
bug-buddy-2.0.8-ximian.1.i586.rpm
libvorbis0-1.0-0.rc3.1.ximian.2.i586.rpm
libogg0-1.0-0.rc3.1.ximian.3.i586.rpm
rep-gtk-gnome-0.15-ximian.6.i586.rpm
rep-gtk-libglade-0.15-ximian.6.i586.rpm
rep-gtk-0.15-ximian.6.i586.rpm
gdk-pixbuf-0.16.0-ximian.1.i586.rpm
glade-0.6.4-1.ximian.1.i586.rpm
GConf-1.0.8-1.ximian.1.i586.rpm
slib-2d1-ximian.8.i586.rpm
liboaf0-0.6.8-1.ximian.1.i586.rpm
ORBit-0.5.13-ximian.1.i586.rpm
libbonobo2-1.0.19-ximian.2.i586.rpm
libghttp1-1.0.9-ximian.7.i586.rpm
gtk-themes-1.0-ximian.4.i586.rpm
libgnome-vfs0-1.0.4-ximian.4.i586.rpm
gnome-core-1.4.0.4-ximian.11.i586.rpm
gdm-2.2.5.4-1.ximian.2.i586.rpm
libglade-gnome0-0.17-1.ximian.1.i586.rpm
libgtk+1.2-1.2.10-ximian.21.i586.rpm
libgtkmm1.2-1.2.8-1.ximian.1.i586.rpm
libgtkxmhtml1-1.4.1.4-1.ximian.1.i586.rpm
libimlib1-1.9.10-ximian.4.i586.rpm
libole20-0.2.4-ximian.1.i586.rpm
librep-0.14-ximian.1.i586.rpm
gftp-2.0.11-ximian.1.i586.rpm
libGConf1-1.0.8-1.ximian.1.i586.rpm 

Any suggestions?  I REALLY want Evo back.

Hamish