freezing on playback after upgrade

Hi everyone,

10.21 was my first venture into mythtv and I loved how mythdora combined myth with the distro I'm most used to.

10.21 worked great on my machine. 10.22 is a bit of a crapshoot and I'm not sure what to report on for debugging.

Repeatability: about 1/4 of the time when trying to play a recorded show or a video I get the "Please Wait" text and then it freezes...no response from anything until I log in and do a pkill mythfrontend and pkill X. I used to log in on another terminal and do just pkill X but the mythfrontend process stayed active and these dead processes accumulated and seemed to make things worst.

System:
P4 2GHz 1GB ram
mythdora default install and ratpoison is chosen instead of gnome.
hauppauge pvr 150 and 350 w/ X running on the 350 output.
mythconverg and system on a 40GB drive
/recordings directory on a separate 160GB drive

What log files or errors can I hunt to help figure out what is wrong?

A million thanks in advance.

/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.l

/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log & /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log are the places to start.