Mandrake 7.1: First I loved it, now I hate it.

I managed a nice ftp installation about a week ago. Now when I decided to
do a reinstall it won't. I've been attempting a "customized" install all
these times because my linux partition is on hdb. I'm worried that another
type of install would erase my Windows partition.
When we get to installing packages I get the following:

Error ...
depslist.ordered mismatch against halist files

Can anyone tell me the cause and fix?