crashes on song playback when last.fm scrobbler is active

[Tuesday Gaines]

Binary package hint: banshee

Through much Trial and error i was able to narrow the issue down to the last.fm extension and something about it causes banshee to crash a few seconds after starting playback, when i run banshee from terminal i get this:

banshee
[Info 08:46:25.852] Running Banshee 1.8.0: [Ubuntu 10.10 (linux-gnu, i686) @ 2010-11-26 13:53:04 UTC]
[Info 08:46:26.923] Updating web proxy from GConf
[Info 08:46:26.957] All services are started 0.946953
[Info 08:46:28.264] nereid Client Started
[Info 08:46:29.601] Uncached artwork size 175 requested
Stacktrace:

  at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Net.Dns.GetHostByName_internal (string,string&,string[]&,string[]&) <0x00004>
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Net.Dns.GetHostByName_internal (string,string&,string[]&,string[]&) <0x00004>
  at System.Net.Dns.GetHostByName (string) <0x00038>
  at System.Net.ServicePoint.get_HostEntry () <0x00137>
  at System.Net.WebConnection.Connect (System.Net.HttpWebRequest) <0x00111>
  at System.Net.WebConnection.InitConnection (object) <0x00129>
  at (wrapper runtime-invoke) object.runtime_invoke_void__this___object (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <0x00046>

Native stacktrace:

 banshee-1() [0x80d4d0b]
 banshee-1() [0x810ffeb]
 [0xcff40c]
 /lib/libnss_wins.so.2(_nss_wins_gethostbyname2_r+0x3f) [0xad7e761f]
 /lib/libc.so.6(gethostbyname2_r+0x1c5) [0x2291a5]
 /lib/libc.so.6(+0xa782c) [0x1e882c]
 /lib/libc.so.6(getaddrinfo+0x165) [0x1ea3b5]
 banshee-1() [0x8158c93]
 [0x36f2ec3]
 [0x36f2339]
 [0x36f2148]
 [0x36f1b3a]
 [0x36f17fa]
 [0x1150bf]
 banshee-1() [0x8061328]
 banshee-1(mono_runtime_invoke+0x40) [0x813c890]
 banshee-1(mono_runtime_invoke_array+0x2a4) [0x81421a4]
 banshee-1() [0x814266e]
 banshee-1() [0x81d2341]
 banshee-1() [0x81d2858]
 banshee-1() [0x81b11db]
 banshee-1() [0x81e8e4e]
 banshee-1() [0x8214f85]
 /lib/libpthread.so.0(+0x5cc9) [0x569cc9]
 /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0x21169e]

Debug info from gdb:

Could not attach to process. If your uid matches the uid of the target
process, check the setting of /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope, or try
again as the root user. For more details, see /etc/sysctl.d/10-ptrace.conf
ptrace: Operation not permitted.

=================================================================
Got a SIGSEGV while executing native code. This usually indicates
a fatal error in the mono runtime or one of the native libraries
used by your application.
=================================================================

Aborted

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I can listen to music with last.fm simply turned off, but oh, how I love that scrobbler...