Sigh, another problem.

Now whenever a sound gets played, mplayer starts a process which never terminates and this bogs down the cpu. every time another sound is played it starts a new process, until there are enough open to make the system crash.

I tried playing something from the terminal, and it also keeps the process open after playing the file. Here is a link to the output:

http://rafb.net/p/oqneUt79.html

Any help greatly appreciated on whether to make mplayer work or to make xchat use the regular player.