amarok fails to start up, looping in sqlite library

Binary package hint: amarok

after a regular update to this dapper powerpc system, amarok fails to start up, looping infinitely with the following output to stderr:

amarok: [CollectionDB] [ERROR!] [virtual QStringList SqliteConnection::query(const QString&)] sqlite3_compile error:
amarok: [CollectionDB] [ERROR!] no such table: tags
amarok: [CollectionDB] [ERROR!] on query: SELECT COUNT( url ) FROM tags LIMIT 1 OFFSET 0;

root@tantive:/var/cache/apt-build/build# gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: powerpc-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f95,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --program-suffix=-4.0 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-java-awt=gtk-default --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-4.0-1.4.2.0/jre --enable-mpfr --disable-softfloat --enable-targets=powerpc-linux,powerpc64-linux --with-cpu=default32 --disable-werror --enable-checking=release powerpc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)

root@tantive:/var/cache/apt-build/build# uname -a
Linux tantive 2.6.15-26-powerpc #1 Thu Aug 3 02:53:39 UTC 2006 ppc GNU/Linux

root@tantive:/var/cache/apt-build/build# dpkg -l "amarok*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-====================-====================-========================================================
ii amarok 1.4.2-0ubuntu2~dappe versatile and easy to use audio player for KDE
pn amarok-arts <none> (no description available)
un amarok-engine <none> (no description available)
ii amarok-engines 1.4.2-0ubuntu2~dappe output engines for the amaroK audio player
ii amarok-xine 1.4.2-0ubuntu2~dappe xine engine for the amaroK audio player

the amarok-arts package is broken, incidentally:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  amarok-arts: Depends: amarok (= 2:1.3.9-0ubuntu4) but 2:1.4.2-0ubuntu2~dapper1 is to be installed

because of an straight equality test for a specific version of the package. The only action required to reproduce this bug on powerpc is to start the application, which never arises, and which consumes 100% of the cpu until it is killed. Start from the commandline to see the output to stderr.