Amarok Won't Run on Sid, KDE 3.5

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

I have just recently set up a system running KDE 3.5 on Sid.  Most parts of it 
worked fine, but a few days ago I found (after aptitude update) that Kopete 
had been updated.  Since that was a package I needed and it had not yet been 
able to install, I did "aptitude upgrade".  The only thing it effected (that 
I couldn't fix quickly) is Amarok.  Now whenever I run Amarok, I get the 
following output:

amaroK: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
amaroK: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use 
amarokapp.
amaroK: [Loader] amarokapp probably crashed!

There is a case like this in the archives of this list and a response suggests 
changing the output in amarokrc to gstreamer or xine-engine, which I've 
tried.  I've found other similar problem reports and the only other solution 
I've seen is to delete amarokrc completely.  I backed it up elsewhere and 
deleted it.  This time the spash screen came up (I had disabled it), and 
promptly closed, giving me the same message.

I don't know C or C++ (I presume it's in one of those), and I've never used a 
debugger, so I don't see how it thinks I'm using anything like gdb.

So why does it think I'm using gdb and what can I do to get Amarok to work?

Thanks!

Hal