Boot errors upgraded Ubuntu 10.10, mod probe: FATAL: could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep

Hello,

I have been running 10.04 for about 5 months without any problems.

Yesterday I upgraded to 10.10 without a hitch, except:
When the install process re-booted my machine I noticed the following errors (both identical)
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mod probe: FATAL: could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep
no such file or directory

mod probe: FATAL: could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep
no such file or directory
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After approx 10 seconds the screen clears and the system boots okay and as far as I can tell (I have not checked everything)
10.10 is working.....

Follow-up

One person suggested:
Booting to Recovery Mode.........., but I am unable to accomplish this task ?????
I only see the grub prompt occassionally and the esc buttom doesn't allow me to login or issue the command

However, I looked at the suspect file and noticed the following:

Other .dep files in the same directory have a header/descriptor record beginning with a "#"

the modules.dep file, referred to in the error message does not have a header record????

I tried issuing the "$ sudo depmod -a" command in the terminal mode. I appears to complete without error,
however, on reboot none of the original symptoms/errors have changed?

I tried to run the modprobe command and got the same error message.............

I still see some (~5) messages which appear on shutdown, but each time they are different?????

HELP.....
& Thanks,