I managed to launch the control panel and rebuild the app menu. Somehow reinstalling Garnet wiped it out. However, I am still having having difficulties with uninstalling Garnet. I tried to remove it manually from /usr/bin and /home/user but it is still listed in the app menu and I can not uninstall or reinstall it with either the app manager or apt-get due to dpkg errors sited above. In fact I can't install anything right now.

BTW I do not have the info file /var/lib/dpkg/updates/0000. All it displays there is 0001-0007 with 0005 being a directory.

Update:

I deleted the items in /var/lib/dpkg/updates. I seem to be able to install some applications, including Garnet, however, app manager keeps giving a failed to install message on all successful installs.