I think I've just messed too much with my install

Hi
Recently, I have upgraded my system using the [testing] repo.
Then I wanted to downgrade, and as I read somewhere here on the board, the only way of doing so is to manually remove packages and reinstall them after removing [testing] from pacman.conf.
So I did just this:
pacman -Rd cairo cairomm camsource db dcron device-mapper dia digikam dmraid dosbox doxygen firefox gd ghostscript glib2 gnome-python-extras graphicsmagick graphviz gstreamer0.10-good gstreamer0.10-good-plugins gthumb gtk2 gzip imagemagick imlib2 initscripts inkscape jasper kdebase-runtime kdebase-workspace kdegraphics-gwenview kdegraphics-kamera kdegraphics-kcolorchooser kdegraphics-kgamma kdegraphics-kolourpaint kdegraphics-kruler kdegraphics-ksnapshot kdegraphics-libs kdegraphics-okular kdelibs kdelibs3 kfax kile kipi-plugins klibc klibc-extras klibc-module-init-tools klibc-udev lcms libcap libcups libdjvu libdrm libgphoto2 libjpeg libmng libpng librsvg libtiff libvncserver libwebkit libwmf lvm2 mdadm mjpegtools mplayer nano netcfg obex-data-server octave opencv openoffice-base-devel pciutils pcmciautils php php-apache php-cgi php-curl php-gd php-mcrypt php-pear php-sqlite php-xsl pilot-link plotutils pm-utils poppler poppler-glib poppler-qt povray pstoedit pyqt python-qscintilla qscintilla qt qt3 redland rrdtool sdl_image slim sqlite3 texlive-bin thunar thunderbird tightvnc udev util-linux-ng vigra vlc wireless-regdb wxgtk xawtv xf86-video-intel xfce4-notifyd xine-lib xulrunner xz-utils zvbi
Now pacman won't work, because of missing xz-utils, which is used by libarchive, which pacman itself depends on.
What to do to save my system?

drcouzelis wrote:
I don't think it would be hard to use the Arch Linux install CD, do a live boot, "chroot", and then use pacman as usual.
I think that makes sense. Doesn't it?
Wouldn't it be the same problem then?
I mean, if you chroot to the install, xz-utils will still be missing. Or does pacman use the stick's binaries also from within chroot?

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