Ubuntu 9.10 64bit - skin problem (?) causes player to freeze

[Spartan-Sensei]

Hi there.
I am not sure if this is a bug, if it is a known issue or whatever so please bare with me

So here's my problem.
I have vlc, version 1.0.2, on a 64bit Ubuntu 9.10.

With the default interface (that is native, not with a skin) everything works fine.
I downloaded skin Bblue, from here http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.php (the problem applies also with skin WMP11_B, that I've also tried).
I have the skin in /home/george/.local/share/vlc/skins2/Bblue.vlt as per the site instructions.

When I click on a video file (the format doesn't seem to play any role) sometimes on some videos the windows appears and after that just freezes.
The problem isn't with the video file, cause the problem might appear now on a .avi and later that same .avi might work fine, and a previous working .mov file, will freeze.
As a matter of fact, while trying to replicate the problem for this post, a file I had in mind worked without a problem, and another froze.

A friend of mine suggested to run vlc from terminal, in order to see that happend then.
If i run it from the terminal as

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vlc file

I get

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VLC media player 1.0.2 Goldeneye [0x9659e8] main interface error: no interface module matched "globalhotkeys,none" [0x9659e8] main interface error: no suitable interface module [0x84e888] main libvlc error: interface "globalhotkeys,none" initialization failed [0x9659e8] skins2 interface: skin: Bblue author: Ptitlu [0x25bf6c8] pulse audio output: No. of Audio Channels: 2

But the file that just a moment ago didn't work from the gui, it works now fine.

When the program freezes, I get these stats from the system monitor.
Status: sleeping, % CPU: around 96%, Waiting Channel: futex_wait_queue_me

I repeat if I don't use any skin, there is no problem at all, with all the files.

Any ideas what might be the problem? Thx anyway