Comment 2 for bug 308385

I think this bug is related to the following threads.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=972696
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=53415

I've observed this behaviour under a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10

I'm desperately looking for a solution. If I can't find one it's back to windows XP

Let me know if there's anything I need to provide to assist in tracing this bug.