Ah crap, I performed an apt-get -f upgrade to fix an unrelated apps's libsdl-tff error and while it did fix that, it's installed Python updates that are screwing up other python apps.

Now both Fmms, Gpodder, and Panucci fail. They all report:
ImportError: No module named cairo

Can anyone suggest an apt-get method to put my python version back to normal? There's so many python runtime packages, I'm not even sure which ones to look at.