Uninstall not removing packages?

[Troy Telford]

Simple enough:  I uninstalled a couple of packages, in particular, TeTeX, and 
XeTeX.  (port uninstall tetex && port uninstall xetex)

Port claimed to have uninstalled both without error, problems, etc.

However, nothing was uninstalled.  All of the files for both packages are 
still there.

So, I tried re-installing both.

That failed, because the same files were already in place.

I next re-installed, using the '-f' switch to force it.

Lots of file renames, and port re-installed the package.  I deleted the 
renamed files.

I then tried to uninstall the package.  Same deal as before -- files which 
should have been deleted weren't.

Has anybody seen this behavior and/or have an idea what I need to do to 
uninstall these packages?

(the thought already occured to me to make a list of the 'renamed' files, edit 
the list so it's the original filenames, then 'cat list | xargs rm')  But I'd 
rather macports do it properly.
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Troy Telford