Comment 8 for bug 369832

was able to remove the package using synaptic, so I think I found my work-around, but thought the following from the tracker log might be important:

~/.local/share/tracker/trackerd.log

11 May 2009, 23:35:11: Tracker-Critical **: Couldn't set mount point state, Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.