Oh no. Can't uninstall or reinstall Akregator or Amarok. Not in DB.

Question

Well, this is probably a typical newbie screw-up here.  When I first installed Arch, I decided to try kdemod.  Even though it's way cooler than standard kde, I'm kind of getting tired of that look.  So...I followed the guidelines for uninstall from the kdemod faq that basically calls for grepping 'kdemod' and uninstalling everything individually via -Rd in pacman including qt-enhanced. 
Ok, I didn't think this through very well at the time.  I really LOVE akregator and amarok...so I neglected to uninstall those pkgs with everything else.  Dumb.  Really dumb.  Now, I have the icons in my menu but OF COURSE they're broken.  Now the problem is that I can't 'pacman -Rd akregator' because I get:
error: failed to add target 'akregator' (could not find or read package)
I also cannot 'pacman -Sy akregator' because I get:
error: 'akregator': not found in sync db
I don't know what to do now.  I would like to go ahead and install those things again and use them b/c I don't care for rhythmbox or exaile (I can live with exaile tho) and I don't know of a good alternative to akregator yet.
Can anyone suggest anything?  I'm in a pickle.  :-(
Many tks,
Carrie
(5x5)

Answer 1

Very well, I'll go into excruciating detail.
"Bon Echo" was (is?) the codename for firefox 2.0 when it was in alpha form. That's why you see that name associated with Firefox on those pages you've found.  We're aware of this.
Mozilla has very strict rules regarding their trademark of the "Firefox" name - any modifications to the code they provide may (afaik) no longer be called "Firefox" as they are no longer strictly the product called "Firefox".  We had a lengthy discussion about this issue as developers and decided that, since we apply a few patches to get our firefox package in proper working order, that we wouldn't go through the hassle we might get if we continue to brand the application firefox.
So, in our build scripts, we disabled branding, which is something that (again afaik) mozilla added to the build process to make it easier for distros like ours to remove their trademarked "Firefox" name from the application.  By default, this removes "Firefox" and the well-known firefox logo from the application in all places, and replaces "Firefox" with "Bon Echo" - the codename they used through the alpha process - and the firefox logo with a generic globe-like icon.
We currently package firefox version 2.0.0.11:
$ pacman -Qi firefox
Name : firefox
Version : 2.0.0.11-1
which is distinctly NOT the alpha versions. The name remains 'firefox' simply because we don't want to over-confuse users - we try to keep things as simple as possible, and telling people to install the "bonecho" package when they're looking for firefox isn't exactly simple.
To my knowledge, this is something that other distros do as well, and something that has been discussed in this forum when we first made the switch from "Firefox" to "Bon Echo" as other users were curious.  We often recommend people search the forums before asking questions - a search for "Bon Echo" in the forum's search engine would have turned up at least a couple helpful results, in particular:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=38629
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=34136
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=33622
Hopefully that clears up any confusion you may have.
You can trust me.  I try not to talk about things I don't know.