gnorpm & rpm's

["John B. Stephens,II" <jbstephe flash lakeheadu ca>]

i have recently tried to upgrade some rpm packages ( installed from
redhat 6.0 ) to newer versions.
however , i am getting error msgs. like:

"..only packages with major number <= 3 are supported by this version of
rpm..."

when i a try to either "upgrade" / "install".
i tried to dwnload the ver 4+ 0f rpm , as well as the 0.9+ version of
gnorpm - both / eother of which i can get but am unable to open with
this present version of rpm and gnorpm, without getting the errors i
spoke of.

any ideas as to why / what the problem is??
thanks in advance for any / all suggestions , etc.