Nick, you pointed me in the right direction again (I hope). I tried to emerge xmms-arts but it was "masked" so I went to the forums and found... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=50037&highlight=ebuilds+satisfy+xmmsarts+masked
Emerging now.
I emerged this package. I think I found out why it was masked when my machine locked up.
Col