smart issues during upgrade from 2.3 to 2.4.1

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[donges]

Hi All -
I'm hoping this is something simple that I can just force through, but we'll see...
During the efw-upgrade from 2.3 to 2.4.1, something must have gone wrong that I didn't notice at the time.  it looked like the upgrade completed except for a hang of several hours at the end of the ssh session - never went back to prompt.  I restarted the box from the web gui at that point.
The version remained at 2.3, so I knew something was awry at that point.  So I attempted the upgrade again and now, after the initial cache update and package checks, I get:
Committing transaction...
Preparing...                           #################################################### [  0%]
error: package efw-dhcpd-2.4.3-0.endian7.noarch is already installed
error: package efw-snort-2.4.8-0.endian13.noarch is already installed
error: package efw-network-status-2.4.9-0.endian27.i586 is already installed

Doing a smart update  and a smart upgrade  has no effect.
Is there a way to force smart to disregard already installed packages and complete the install?

Or am I better off just installing fresh from the burned iso and restoring backup settings?

Thanks for any advice!