[newbie] ACPID misery

[Jason Guidry]

My K-6 based laptop is haveing some power management problems.  The ACPI
daemon fails on boot (Not found).  I tried reinstalling it and it says
that it's already there.  tried uninstalling it (in GUI) and it says
it's not there  :P

is there some variation on an rpm command with a --force switch or
something?  will that do it?  is this common?