emerge broken??! What do I do?

[pdptrojan]

All of a sudden, out of no where, I can no longer emerge packages.
Emerge rsync works fine though.

If I try to emerge --update world, I get this message:

[root@Trojan portage]$ emerge --update world
Calculating world dependencies \Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1198, in ?
if not mydepgraph.syscreate(getworldlist()):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 502, in syscreate
if not self.create(self.match(myline,mykey="update (likely old /var/db/pkg entry)")):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 409, in create
edepend=eval(mydb.readline())
File "<string>", line 0

^
SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing


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Trying to emerge any package gives me this error:


[root@Trojan app-admin]$ emerge usbview
Calculating dependencies \Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1230, in ?
if not mydepgraph.create(mytype+" "+portage.root+" "+mykey,None,"--onlydeps" not in myopts):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 409, in create
edepend=eval(mydb.readline())
File "<string>", line 0

^
SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

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I didn't do anything abnormal to my system... anyone come accross this before?

Thanks!

[Aravaipa]

I see the same error in emerging most packages now, though "emerge rsync" seems to be fine. I also can emerge some packages like mozilla for instance, which I upgraded recently. Everything else gives this error. My vertion of portage is 1.9.7 (I was hoping that I could upgrade to the newer version and that would fix the problem, but this is one of the packages that fails)

Any help would be appreciated