[chef] "ERROR: ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)"

[pjbug < >]

My workstation has been functional for 3 months.  I upgraded my chef server
from 10.?.? to 10.18.2 on Jan 25, 2013.  It has been working great until
yesterday.  Every time that i try to upload ANY cookbook from my workstation 
if
get this error message "ERROR: ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for
2)".   I bulk deleted ALL of my cookbooks and tried to reload a cookbook that
had no changes.  Still the same error.  Coworker suggested that since knife
--version on my workstation results in Chef:  10.12.0 and knife --version on 
my
chefserver results in Chef:  10.18.2, that it is a version mismatch.  I would
like to find the chef-client-10.18.2 windows msi file.  If i do gem install
then i end up with net-ssh issues.  The references that i found for this error
message say that it is a problem with the metadata - there is not any problem
with the metadata. I have loaded many of these cookbooks before - many just 
two
days ago -and my coworkers have no issues with the cookbooks. I have not made
any changes to my chefserver (rhel5 x86_64)  or my workstation (windows 7).
Any ideas?  Thoughts?  Suggestions?