up2date RPM package conflict error

[Ryan Williams]

> You (or someone) probably installed the package manually or something like 
> that, ie. not via up2date. Therefore the up2date profile in the server has no 
> knowledge of this package already installed in your machine, and try to 
> update it.
> 
> Run 'up2date -p' to update your profile, then try again.

The -p option doesn't fix the problem. It still gives the same error:

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3...

Fetching rpm headers...
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Name                                    Version        Rel
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xerces-j                                2.2.1          11 
  i386


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
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RPM package conflict error.  The message was:
Test install failed because of package conflicts:
package xerces-j-2.2.1-11 is already installed


This is a new ES3 server install as of yesterday. We ran up2date 
yesterday without this issue and no RPMs have been manually installed. 
We do have Plesk on this box and did some psa related installs/upgrades 
which included the Tomcat server. I suppose Plesk could have installed 
it as part of that Java package.

Any clue on how to correct this? Should I just add it to my config file 
to skip 'xerces*'? It's not letting me do any other patches with the -u 
option due to this error.

Sorry, I'm a newbie when it comes to up2date. I'm used to using YUM on 
the legacy RH9.

Ryan