Ok i just recompiled amarok 1.3.7 with xine-engine only and now when I try to play a song I get an error: KDEinit could not launch kmail executable . Then amarok crashes.... what is going on? why does amarok need kmail? Any way I can get amarok going without kmail?

amaroK doesn\'t crash because it can\'t find kmail, It tries to start kmail because it crashes (it uses kmail to send backtraces (crash reports) to the dev team). Your problem is something else, have you tried another engine?

(gdb) c
Continuing.
[New Thread -1249100880 (LWP 15349)]
[New Thread -1257489488 (LWP 15350)]
[Thread -1257489488 (LWP 15350) exited]
[Thread -1249100880 (LWP 15349) exited]
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
[New Thread -1257489488 (LWP 15351)]
[Thread -1257489488 (LWP 15351) exited]
[New Thread -1257489488 (LWP 15352)]
[New Thread -1249100880 (LWP 15353)]
[New Thread -1270907984 (LWP 15354)]
[New Thread -1281184848 (LWP 15355)]
[New Thread -1289573456 (LWP 15356)]
STARTUP
c

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb673cbd9 in TagLib::ByteVector::data () from /usr/lib/libtag.so.1
(gdb) c
Continuing.
ptrace: Operation not permitted.
/home/valhalla/15342: No such file or directory.
/tmp/kde-valhalla/amarokS5gPdb.tmp:1: Error in sourced command file:
No stack.

Program exited with code 0375.

Looks like taglib... hummm