delete the broken symlinks and then reinstall the packages?

Thomas: I did that...and it did help for some of it, but not others.
ReyBrujo: Tried that too, but could not remove gcc-4.4.1 because it was a "protected and vital package" (even if it was broke I guess).

Thanks to both, but I got tired of trying to fix it (and possibly end up with other errors later), so I just reinstalled it. Luckily their installer was updated and it didn't die before it was done this time. I thought it was only the grub part that was jacked up, but apparently not... Hopefully everything will work correctly now. Again, thanks!

Hahaha, I was waiting for you to say something about that. Yeah, it's based on Gentoo. It's actually pretty slick (at least the 5 Oh version). And yes, I have Windows 7.

I found the problem anyway...seems that when I upgraded binutils, the package management system didn't update the symlinks. I had the same issue after the reinstall, but I fixed it all pretty easy. Now, just have to find out why I don't have any options for a sound card under Linux for Allegro....I have Alsa up and running. Oh well, another project to add to the todo list. Most of my stuff I'm working on is graphics related anyway, so it's not that big of an issue yet.