amarok recently started crashing for me and currently will not start. I\'ve tried removing it and all the config files and information from the ./kde directory and reinstalling it, but the problem persists.

when I start amarok from the terminal, I get errors similar to this:
[code:1]amaroK: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
amaroK: [Loader] Don\'t run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
kbuildsycoca running...
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
QPainter::begin: Cannot paint null pixmap
nashife@uPenny:~$ kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 7
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x340003b
[/code:1]

and then the terminal just hangs. I\'ve also had shorter errors, with much less information but both times the lines \"QPainter::begin: Cannot paint null pixmap\" and \"Don\'t run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.\" are present.

I have no idea what gdb, valgrind, etc are or what amarokapp is.
I can\'t find information about this error through google.

Anyway, the only thing that I have recently done differently that I can think of is that I started using an ipod, and I was successfully able to stream music from my ipod through amarok. Thinking that this was related, I tried mounting my ipod again and starting amarok, but there is no difference.

Anyone have some idea?