Branden,
Nevermind. I just heard back from Samuel Hocevar and he is aware
of the problem and will fix it in the next build. I got thrown for
a loop because there was a crashing bug not fixed in vlc until 0.2.92-7
(which isn't in sid ppc yet) and local builds were failing (because
of xlibs-pics being installed). These two unrelated problems confused
the situation for me.
Jack