system freeze installing libxine1

[Todd Slater]

I try to keep my system up to date, but I haven't been able to install
recent updates because my system freezes when trying to install
libxine1. 

When I run the update util (red icon notifying me updates are
available), it says some packages will be held back and that I need to
run apt-get dist-upgrade or synaptic smart upgrade. Since I couldn't
find anything like that in synaptic, I ran apt-get.

todd at mercury:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  muine-dbus muine-plugin
The following packages have been kept back:
  mozilla-firefox mozilla-firefox-gnome-support
The following packages will be upgraded:
  beagle gaim gaim-data libnspr-dev libnspr4 libnss3 libxine1
mozilla-browser
  mozilla-dev muine sudo tcpdump
12 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 3750kB/23.2MB of archives.
After unpacking 3841kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

The problem is that libxine1 freezes my system. It's weird
because I can move the mouse but I can't click. I can Ctrl-alt-f2 and
attempt to log in, but after I enter my username it freezes and never
lets me enter my password. I end up having to do a reset (ouch).

This has happened several times and I had just been deselecting libxine
in synaptic, but I seem to have gotten to a point that the dist-upgrade
won't go on without it.

Help!

Todd