it was'nt me

i have no idea how unsupported matter crept into our sme
buy i do know how i got it going again:
use wget to get the rpm down and then rpm -Uvh --nodeps smeserver-support.noarch 0:1.6.0-40.el4.sme
following that everything worked fine again, but there may be danger lurking in da future from my in the moment approch to resolution